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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2017-c09c0cc384
2017-03-12 16:21:58.068012
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Name        : freetype
Product     : Fedora 25
Version     : 2.6.5
Release     : 3.fc25
URL         : https://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 fixes a possible heap buffer overflow.
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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
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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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Fedora 25: freetype Security Update 2017-c09c0cc384

March 12, 2017
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.

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

Severity
Name : freetype
Product : Fedora 25
Version : 2.6.5
Release : 3.fc25
URL : https://freetype.org/
Summary : A free and portable font rendering engine

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