[SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: libpng-1.2.29-1.fc8

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-4847
2008-06-03 04:29:50
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Name        : libpng
Product     : Fedora 8
Version     : 1.2.29
Release     : 1.fc8
URL         : http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/
Summary     : A library of functions for manipulating PNG image format files
Description :
The libpng package contains a library of functions for creating and
manipulating PNG (Portable Network Graphics) image format files.  PNG
is a bit-mapped graphics format similar to the GIF format.  PNG was
created to replace the GIF format, since GIF uses a patented data
compression algorithm.

Libpng should be installed if you need to manipulate PNG format image
files.

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Update Information:

Update to new upstream version 1.2.29.    Among other bug fixes, this introduces
a minor security fix in the handling of unknown chunks - CVE-2008-1382:
http://libpng.sourceforge.net/Advisory-1.2.26.txt
http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-003.html
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ChangeLog:

* Sat May 31 2008 Tom Lane <tgl at redhat.com> 2:1.2.29-1
- Update to libpng 1.2.29 (fixes low-priority security issue CVE-2008-1382)
Related: #441839
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #441839 - CVE-2008-1382 libpng unknown chunk handling flaw
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=441839
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update libpng' at the command line.
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available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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