[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: squashfs-tools-4.2-5.fc18

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-19056
2012-11-27 09:33:04
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Name        : squashfs-tools
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 4.2
Release     : 5.fc18
URL         : http://squashfs.sourceforge.net/
Summary     : Utility for the creation of squashfs filesystems
Description :
Squashfs is a highly compressed read-only filesystem for Linux.  This package
contains the utilities for manipulating squashfs filesystems.

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Update Information:

Backported fixes for bz 842458 (CVE-2012-4024) and bz 842460 (CVE-2012-4025)
Backported fix for bz 842458 (CVE-2012-4024)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #842460 - CVE-2012-4025 squashfs-tools: integer overflow in queue_init() may lead to abitrary code execution
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=842460
  [ 2 ] Bug #842458 - CVE-2012-4024 squashfs-tools: remote arbitrary code execution via crafted list file
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=842458
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update squashfs-tools' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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