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Fedora 26: freetype Security Advisory - Critical NULL Pointer Issue

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Calendar Grey March 13, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Crucial security patch for freetype resolves a significant NULL pointer vulnerability in Fedora 26. Learn more about the patches available now!
Security fix for CVE-2018-6942.

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 fix for CVE-2018-6942.

[ 1 ] Bug #1544771 - CVE-2018-6942 freetype: NULL pointer dereference in the Ins_GETVARIATION() function

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1544771

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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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 26
Version: 2.7.1
Release: 10.fc26
Summary: A free and portable font rendering engine

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