Fedora alert FEDORA-2014-16840 (freetype)
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| Subject: | [SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: freetype-2.5.3-13.fc21 | |
| Date: | Tue, 23 Dec 2014 18:31:38 +0000 | |
| Message-ID: | <20141223183146.5FED460CF379@bastion01.phx2.fedoraproject.org> |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2014-16840 2014-12-13 08:32:24 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : freetype Product : Fedora 21 Version : 2.5.3 Release : 13.fc21 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 prevents freetype from a buffer overflow. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Thu Dec 11 2014 Marek Kasik <mkasik@redhat.com> - 2.5.3-13 - Suppress an assert when hintMap.count == 0 in specific situations. - Related: #1172634 * Wed Dec 10 2014 Marek Kasik <mkasik@redhat.com> - 2.5.3-12 - Don't append to stem arrays after hintmask is constructed. - Related: #1172634 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #1172633 - freetype: OOB stack-based read/write in cf2_hintmap_build() (incomplete fix for CVE-2014-2240). https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1172633 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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-...