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Scientific Linux alert SL-free-20130201 (freetype)

From:  Pat Riehecky <riehecky@fnal.gov>
To:  "SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-ERRATA@LISTSERV.FNAL.GOV" <SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-ERRATA@LISTSERV.FNAL.GOV>
Subject:  Security ERRATA Important: freetype on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64
Date:  Fri, 1 Feb 2013 09:47:47 -0600
Message-ID:  <510BE3A3.5020004@fnal.gov>
Archive-link:  Article, Thread

Synopsis: Important: freetype security update Issue Date: 2013-01-31 CVE Numbers: CVE-2012-5669 -- A flaw was found in the way the FreeType font rendering engine processed certain Glyph Bitmap Distribution Format (BDF) fonts. If a user loaded a specially-crafted font file with an application linked against FreeType, it could cause the application to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application. (CVE-2012-5669) The X server must be restarted (log out, then log back in) for this update to take effect. -- SL5 x86_64 freetype-2.2.1-32.el5_9.1.i386.rpm freetype-2.2.1-32.el5_9.1.x86_64.rpm freetype-debuginfo-2.2.1-32.el5_9.1.i386.rpm freetype-debuginfo-2.2.1-32.el5_9.1.x86_64.rpm freetype-demos-2.2.1-32.el5_9.1.x86_64.rpm freetype-devel-2.2.1-32.el5_9.1.i386.rpm freetype-devel-2.2.1-32.el5_9.1.x86_64.rpm i386 freetype-2.2.1-32.el5_9.1.i386.rpm freetype-debuginfo-2.2.1-32.el5_9.1.i386.rpm freetype-demos-2.2.1-32.el5_9.1.i386.rpm freetype-devel-2.2.1-32.el5_9.1.i386.rpm SL6 x86_64 freetype-2.3.11-14.el6_3.1.i686.rpm freetype-2.3.11-14.el6_3.1.x86_64.rpm freetype-debuginfo-2.3.11-14.el6_3.1.i686.rpm freetype-debuginfo-2.3.11-14.el6_3.1.x86_64.rpm freetype-demos-2.3.11-14.el6_3.1.x86_64.rpm freetype-devel-2.3.11-14.el6_3.1.i686.rpm freetype-devel-2.3.11-14.el6_3.1.x86_64.rpm i386 freetype-2.3.11-14.el6_3.1.i686.rpm freetype-debuginfo-2.3.11-14.el6_3.1.i686.rpm freetype-demos-2.3.11-14.el6_3.1.i686.rpm freetype-devel-2.3.11-14.el6_3.1.i686.rpm - Scientific Linux Development Team


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