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Fedora 34: 2021-7453 Important Freetype2 Security Patch

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Calendar Grey May 28, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Update bulletin for Fedora 11 freetype1 focusing on addressing severe vulnerabilities in font handling. This patch aims to enhance security and stability.
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 software update Fedora security patch critical error freetype1 font rendering

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)

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 11
Version: 1.4
Release: 0.8.pre.fc11
URL: https://freetype.org/
Summary: Free TrueType font rendering engine, compatibility version

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory software update Fedora security patch critical error freetype1 font rendering

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