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Fedora 24 Critical Update: freetype Buffer Overflow Fix

fedora
Calendar Grey March 13, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
This Debian update resolves a significant memory leak in the libjpeg library, improving overall performance and data integrity.
This update fixes a possible heap buffer overflow.

Summary

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 fixes a possible heap buffer overflow.

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Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1429968 - CVE-2016-10244 freetype: parse_charstrings function in type1/t1load.c does not ensure that a font contains a glyph name [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1429968

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade freetype' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Name: freetype
Product: Fedora 24
Version: 2.6.3
Release: 3.fc24
URL: https://freetype.org/
Summary: A free and portable font rendering engine

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