Fedora 11: 2009-8993 Moderate: XEmacs Image Buffer Overflow

XEmacs is a highly customizable open source text editor and

application development system. It is protected under the GNU General

Public License and related to other versions of Emacs, in particular

GNU Emacs. Its emphasis is on modern graphical user interface support

and an open software development model, similar to Linux.

This package contains XEmacs built for X Windows with MULE support.

This update fixes multiple buffer overflows when reading large image files, or

maliciously created image files whose headers misrepresent the actual image

size. The update also addresses multiple font issues, some of which cause

warnings on startup. Some warnings remain, however, unless an ISO8859-13 fonts

(e.g., terminus) is installed. Also note that some warnings remain on Rawhide

pending a resolution for bz 507637.

* Mon Aug 24 2009 Jerry James - 21.5.29-2

- Fix image overflow bug (CVE-2009-2688).

- Fix calling xft-font-create-object in non-Xft builds (#512623).

- Rebase patches to eliminate fuzz/offsets.

* Wed May 20 2009 Ville Skyttä - 21.5.29-1

- Update to 21.5.29; gtk-gcc4, finder-lisp-dir, 3d-athena, autoconf262,

doc-encodings, revert-modified, and xemacs-base-autoloads patches applied

upstream.

* Thu Mar 12 2009 Ville Skyttä - 21.5.28-13

- Add possibility to build upstream hg snapshots.

- Add dependency on xorg-x11-fonts-misc (#478370, Carl Brune).

- Include Installation{,-nox} in docs.

[ 1 ] Bug #511994 - CVE-2009-2688 xemacs: multiple integer overflow flaws

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511994

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