[El-errata] ELSA-2008-0863 Important: Enterprise Linux 3 libtiff security update

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Thu Aug 28 22:21:27 PDT 2008


Enterprise Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2008-0863

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0863.html

The following updated rpms for Enterprise Linux 3 have been uploaded to 
the Unbreakable Linux Network:

i386:
libtiff-3.5.7-31.el3.i386.rpm
libtiff-devel-3.5.7-31.el3.i386.rpm

x86_64:
libtiff-3.5.7-31.el3.i386.rpm
libtiff-3.5.7-31.el3.x86_64.rpm
libtiff-devel-3.5.7-31.el3.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/el3/SRPMS-updates/libtiff-3.5.7-31.el3.src.rpm


Description of changes:

[3.5.7-31.el3]
- Fix some additional LZW decoding vulnerabilities (back-port from 
tiff-3.6.1)
Resolves: #458810
- Force debug symbols to be generated by adding GCOPTS="-g"; the test
  used by this old configure script is too easily confused

[3.5.7-25.el3.5]
- Fix LZW decoding vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-2327)
Resolves: #458810





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