[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: xfig-3.2.5-32.b.fc16

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-11813
2012-08-13 23:14:56
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Name        : xfig
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 3.2.5
Release     : 32.b.fc16
URL         : http://www.xfig.org/
Summary     : An X Window System tool for drawing basic vector graphics
Description :
Xfig is an X Window System tool for creating basic vector graphics,
including bezier curves, lines, rulers and more.  The resulting
graphics can be saved, printed on PostScript printers or converted to
a variety of other formats (e.g., X11 bitmaps, Encapsulated
PostScript, LaTeX).

You should install xfig if you need a simple program to create vector
graphics.

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Update Information:

- Fix a stack overflow when importing 1.3 files (CVE-2009-4227)
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ChangeLog:

* Sun Aug 12 2012 Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com> - 3.2.5-32.b
- Fix a stack overflow when importing 1.3 files (CVE-2009-4227) (rhbz#543905)
* Sun Jul 22 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 3.2.5-31.b
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild
* Sun Feb 26 2012 Orion Poplawski <orion at cora.nwra.com> - 3.2.5-30.b
- Rebuild with Xaw3d 1.6.1
* Tue Feb 14 2012 Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at fedoraproject.org> - 3.2.5-29.b
- Add patch from Debian for libpng 1.5
* Sat Jan 14 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 3.2.5-28.b
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_17_Mass_Rebuild
* Tue Dec  6 2011 Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> - 3.2.5-27.b
- Rebuild for new libpng
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #543905 - CVE-2009-4227 CVE-2009-4228 Xfig, Transfig: Stack-based buffer overflow by loading malformed .FIG files
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=543905
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update xfig' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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