[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: libwebp-0.2.1-1.fc17

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-1473
2013-01-25 20:31:32
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Name        : libwebp
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 0.2.1
Release     : 1.fc17
URL         : http://webmproject.org/
Summary     : Library and tools for the WebP graphics format
Description :
WebP is an image format that does lossy compression of digital
photographic images. WebP consists of a codec based on VP8, and a
container based on RIFF. Webmasters, web developers and browser
developers can use WebP to compress, archive and distribute digital
images more efficiently.

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Update Information:

Security libwebp release, where an integer overflow allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted WebP image.
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Dec 27 2012 Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> - 0.2.1-1
- new upstream release 0.2.1
* Fri Dec 21 2012 Adam Tkac <atkac redhat com> - 0.1.3-3
- rebuild against new libjpeg
* Thu Jul 19 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 0.1.3-2
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #875071 - CVE-2012-5127 libwebp: Integer overflow when processing crafted WebP image
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=875071
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update libwebp' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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