Fedora alert FEDORA-2013-1466 (freetype)

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[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: freetype-2.4.8-4.fc17 
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-1466
2013-01-25 20:31:03
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Name        : freetype
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 2.4.8
Release     : 4.fc17
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.

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Update Information:

This update fixes CVE-2012-5669.

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ChangeLog:

* Thu Jan 24 2013 Marek Kasik <mkasik@redhat.com> 2.4.8-4
- Fixes CVE-2012-5669
- Resolves: #903554
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #890088 - CVE-2012-5669 freetype: heap buffer over-read in BDF parsing
_bdf_parse_glyphs() (#37906)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=890088
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
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