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Fedora Security Advisory 2017-71b9a2ef5f Critical: freetype Heap Overflow

fedora
Calendar Grey May 6, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
This Debian patch improves system security by fixing exploitation risks in libpng, preventing potential vulnerabilities.
Security fixes for CVE-2017-8105 and CVE-2017-8287.

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.

Security fixes for CVE-2017-8105 and CVE-2017-8287.

[ 1 ] Bug #1446073 - CVE-2017-8287 freetype: heap-based buffer overflow related to the t1_builder_close_contour function

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1446073

[ 2 ] Bug #1446500 - CVE-2017-8105 freetype: heap-based buffer overflow related to the t1_decoder_parse_charstrings

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1446500

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

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Product: Fedora 26
Version: 2.7.1
Release: 6.fc26
Summary: A free and portable font rendering engine

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