[SECURITY] Fedora 12 Update: dvipng-1.13-1.fc12

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-8252
2010-05-10 16:32:34
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Name        : dvipng
Product     : Fedora 12
Version     : 1.13
Release     : 1.fc12
URL         : http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/dvipng/
Summary     : Converts DVI files to PNG/GIF format
Description :
This program makes PNG and/or GIF graphics from DVI files as obtained
from TeX and its relatives.

It is intended to produce anti-aliased screen-resolution images as
fast as is possible. The target audience is people who need to generate
and regenerate many images again and again.

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Update Information:

Upgrades dvipng to version 1.13 which fixes CVE-2010-0829.
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ChangeLog:

* Fri May  7 2010 Jindrich Novy <jnovy at redhat.com> - 1.13-1
- update to 1.13, fixes CVE-2010-0829 (#589607)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #573999 - CVE-2010-0829 tetex, dvipng: Multiple array index errors during DVI-to-PNG translation
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=573999
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update dvipng' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
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https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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