-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-1122 2008-02-05 23:14:30 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : tk Product : Fedora 8 Version : 8.4.17 Release : 2.fc8 URL : http://tcl.sourceforge.net Summary : The graphical toolkit for the Tcl scripting language Description : When paired with the Tcl scripting language, Tk provides a fast and powerful way to create cross-platform GUI applications.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information:
The new version of tk, which brings some bug fixes f.e. better functionality on 64bits. Fixed security issue - buffer overflow in gif parsing. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog:
* Mon Jan 28 2008 Marcela Maslanova mmaslano@redhat.com - 1:8.4.17-2 - attached upstream patch - similar to CVE-2006-4484, problem with GIF again #430100 * Wed Jan 23 2008 Marcela Maslanova mmaslano@redhat.com - 1:8.4.17-1 - update 8.4.17 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #431518 - CVE-2008-0553 tk: GIF handling buffer overflow https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=431518 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update tk' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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