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| [SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: freetype-2.3.5-4.fc8 |
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| Wed, 18 Jun 2008 03:15:47 +0000 |
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-5430
2008-06-18 01:33:03
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Name : freetype
Product : Fedora 8
Version : 2.3.5
Release : 4.fc8
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 backports security fixes from upstream version 2.3.6 -
CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1807 and CVE-2008-1808. For further details, see:
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/dis...
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/dis...
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/dis...
Note: TTF bytecode interpreter is not enabled by default in the Fedora freetype
packages, therefore Fedora packages were not affected by the TTF part of the
CVE-2008-1808.
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ChangeLog:
* Tue Jun 17 2008 Behdad Esfahbod <besfahbo@redhat.com> 2.3.5-4
- Add freetype-2.3.5-CVEs.patch
- Resolves: #451212
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #450774 - CVE-2008-1808 FreeType off-by-one flaws
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450774
[ 2 ] Bug #450768 - CVE-2008-1806 FreeType PFB integer overflow
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450768
[ 3 ] Bug #450773 - CVE-2008-1807 FreeType invalid free() flaw
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450773
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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
http://fedoraproject.org/keys
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