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MGASA-2012-0317

Date: October 29th, 2012
Affected releases: 1, 2


Description:
Updated libtiff packages fix security vulnerability:

It was discovered that a buffer overflow in libtiff's parsing of files
using PixarLog compression could lead to the execution of arbitrary
code (CVE-2012-4447).


Updated Packages:
Mageia 1:
lib(64)tiff3-3.9.5-1.6.mga1
lib(64)tiff-devel-3.9.5-1.6.mga1
lib(64)tiff-static-devel-3.9.5-1.6.mga1
libtiff-progs-3.9.5-1.6.mga1

Mageia 2:
lib(64)tiff5-4.0.1-2.3.mga2
lib(64)tiff-devel-4.0.1-2.3.mga2
lib(64)tiff-static-devel-4.0.1-2.3.mga2
libtiff-progs-4.0.1-2.3.mga2


References:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-4447
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2561
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7885

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