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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-16854
2014-12-13 08:33:02
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Name : freetype
Product : Fedora 20
Version : 2.5.0
Release : 7.fc20
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 prevents freetype from a buffer overflow.
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Dec 11 2014 Marek Kasik <mkasik@redhat.com> – 2.5.0-7
– Suppress an assert when hintMap.count == 0 in specific situations.
– Resolves: #1172634
* Wed Dec 10 2014 Marek Kasik <mkasik@redhat.com> – 2.5.0-6
– Don’t append to stem arrays after hintmask is constructed.
– Resolves: #1172634
* Tue Mar 11 2014 Marek Kasik <mkasik@redhat.com> – 2.5.0-5
– Add freetype-2.5.0-CVE-2014-2240.patch
(Return when `hintMask’ is invalid.)
– Add freetype-2.5.0-CVE-2014-2241.patch
(Don’t call non-existing subroutines.)
– Resolves: #1074647
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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
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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/.

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