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Fedora alert FEDORA-2011-9525 (freetype)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 14 Update: freetype-2.4.2-5.fc14
Date:  Wed, 31 Aug 2011 01:24:38 +0000
Message-ID:  <20110831012438.4E3F6110FC9@bastion02.phx2.fedoraproject.org>
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2011-9525 2011-07-22 19:05:09 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : freetype Product : Fedora 14 Version : 2.4.2 Release : 5.fc14 URL : http://www.freetype.org Summary : A free and portable font rendering engine Description : The FreeType engine is a free and portable font rendering engine, developed to provide advanced font support for a variety of platforms and environments. FreeType is a library which can open and manages font files as well as efficiently load, hint and render individual glyphs. FreeType is not a font server or a complete text-rendering library. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This update fixes CVE-2011-0226. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Wed Jul 20 2011 Marek Kasik <mkasik@redhat.com> 2.4.2-5 - Add freetype-2.4.2-CVE-2011-0226.patch (Add better argument check for `callothersubr'.) - based on patches by Werner Lemberg, Alexei Podtelezhnikov and Matthias Drochner - Resolves: #723469 * Mon Nov 15 2010 Marek Kasik <mkasik@redhat.com> 2.4.2-4 - Add freetype-2.4.2-CVE-2010-3855.patch (Protect against invalid `runcnt' values.) - Resolves: #651764 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #722701 - CVE-2011-0226 freetype: postscript type1 font parsing vulnerability https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=722701 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update freetype' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-...


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