RHBA-2009:0990 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated netpbm packages that resolve several issues and provide
enhancements are now available.

Description

The netpbm package contains a library of functions which support programs
for handling various graphics file formats, including .pbm (portable
bitmaps), .pgm (portable graymaps), .pnm (portable anymaps), .ppm (portable
pixmaps) and others.

These updated netpbm packages upgrade netpbm to version 10.35.58, which
provides many bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version.
Notably, a large number of new utilities are included in this upgraded
version of netpbm, including: cameratopam, hpcdtoppm, jbigtopnm,
pamaddnoise, pambayer, pamdepth, pamgradient, pammixinterlace, pampick,
pamrgbatopng, pamsplit, pamthreshold, pamtilt, pamtofits, pamtosvg,
pamtotiff, pamtoxvmini, pamx, pcdovtoppm, pgmdeshadow, pgmmake, pgmmedian,
pnmtojbig, ppmdcfont, ppmddumpfont, ppmdmkfont, ppmdraw, and rlatopam

In addition, the following bugs have been fixed in this netpbm update:

• several utilities shipped with netpbm may have crashed while processing

image files. With this update, this issue has been resolved.

• several utilities shipped with netpbm did not accept files from standard

input even though this method was in accordance with the documentation.
With this update, this issue has been resolved.

All users of netpbm are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
resolve these issues.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4 s390
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 4 ppc

Fixes

• BZ - 479016 - Rebase netpbm package for RHEL4

CVEs

(none)

References

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