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Fedora alert FEDORA-2012-5422 (freetype)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: freetype-2.4.4-8.fc15
Date:  Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:01:38 +0000
Message-ID:  <20120424150139.2659520B1D@bastion01.phx2.fedoraproject.org>
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2012-5422 2012-04-06 20:56:57 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : freetype Product : Fedora 15 Version : 2.4.4 Release : 8.fc15 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 various CVEs -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Wed Apr 4 2012 Marek Kasik <mkasik@redhat.com> 2.4.4-8 - Fixes various CVEs - Resolves: #806270 * Tue Nov 15 2011 Marek Kasik <mkasik@redhat.com> 2.4.4-7 - Fix CVE-2011-3439 - Resolves: #753837 * Thu Oct 20 2011 Marek Kasik <mkasik@redhat.com> 2.4.4-6 - Add freetype-2.4.4-CVE-2011-3256.patch (Handle some border cases) - based on patch by Braden Thomas * Wed Jul 20 2011 Marek Kasik <mkasik@redhat.com> 2.4.4-5 - Add freetype-2.4.4-CVE-2011-0226.patch (Add better argument check for `callothersubr'.) - based on patches by Werner Lemberg, Alexei Podtelezhnikov and Matthias Drochner - Resolves: #723469 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #806270 - CVE-2012-{1126,1127,1128,1130,1131,1132,1133,1134,1135,1136,1137,1138,1139,1140,1141,1142,1143,1144} freetype: multiple vulnerabilities [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=806270 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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