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Fedora alert FEDORA-2008-5425 (freetype)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2008-5425 2008-06-18 01:32:35 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : freetype Product : Fedora 9 Version : 2.3.5 Release : 6.fc9 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 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Tue Jun 17 2008 Behdad Esfahbod <besfahbo@redhat.com> 2.3.5-6 - Add freetype-2.3.5-CVEs.patch - Resolves: #451213 * Fri May 23 2008 Dennis Gilmore <dennis@ausil.us> - 2.3.5-5 - add sparc64 to list of 64 bit arches -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #450768 - CVE-2008-1806 FreeType PFB integer overflow https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450768 [ 2 ] Bug #450774 - CVE-2008-1808 FreeType off-by-one flaws https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450774 [ 3 ] Bug #450773 - CVE-2008-1807 FreeType invalid free() flaw https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450773 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-ann... (Log in to post comments)
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