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Fedora: 2020-6b35849edd Critical: freetype Buffer Overflow Issue

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Calendar Grey November 6, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Patch issued for heap overflow vulnerability in freetype on Fedora. Use dnf to apply updates.
Security fix for CVE-2020-15999.

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-2020-15999.

* Fri Oct 23 2020 Marek Kasik - 2.10.0-4

- Test bitmap size earlier for PNGs

- Fix memory leak in pngshim.c

- Resolves: #1890211

[ 1 ] Bug #1890210 - CVE-2020-15999 freetype: Heap-based buffer overflow due to integer truncation in Load_SBit_Png

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1890210

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-6b35849edd' 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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Product: Fedora 31
Version: 2.10.0
Release: 4.fc31
Summary: A free and portable font rendering engine

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