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Fedora alert FEDORA-2011-15956 (freetype)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 14 Update: freetype-2.4.2-7.fc14
Date:  Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:18:30 +0000
Message-ID:  <20111129001831.633B721592@bastion01.phx2.fedoraproject.org>
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2011-15956 2011-11-15 23:44:38 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : freetype Product : Fedora 14 Version : 2.4.2 Release : 7.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-2011-3439 This update fixes CVE-2011-3256 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Tue Nov 15 2011 Marek Kasik <mkasik@redhat.com> 2.4.2-7 - Fix CVE-2011-3439 - Resolves: #753837 * Thu Oct 20 2011 Marek Kasik <mkasik@redhat.com> 2.4.2-6 - Add freetype-2.4.2-CVE-2011-3256.patch (Handle some border cases) * 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 #753837 - CVE-2011-3439 freetype: Multiple security flaws when loading CID-keyed Type 1 fonts [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=753837 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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