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Fedora 10: 2009-5558 Moderate: Freetype1 Security Issues

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Calendar Grey May 28, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notif
Port of freetype2 security fixes

Summary

The FreeType engine is a free and portable TrueType font rendering engine,

developed to provide TrueType 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.

This package contains the obsolote version 1.x of FreeType for applications

which still need this old version. New applications should use the more

advanced FreeType 2.x library packaged as freetype.

Update Information:

Port of freetype2 security fixes

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Fedora freetype1 rendering issue

Change Log

* Tue May 26 2009 Adam Jackson 1.4-0.8.pre - cve-2006-1861.patch, cve-2007-2754.patch: Port of freetype2 fixes. (#502565) * Tue Feb 24 2009 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.4-0.7.pre - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Mass_Rebuild

References


[ 1 ] Bug #502565 - CVE-2006-1861 CVE-2007-2754 Multiple freetype1 vulnerabilities [Fedora rawhide] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502565

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update freetype1' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: freetype1
Product: Fedora 10
Version: 1.4
Release: 0.8.pre.fc10
URL: https://freetype.org/
Summary: Free TrueType font rendering engine, compatibility version

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Fedora freetype1 rendering issue

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