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Fedora 32: FEDORA-2020-6299161e89 Critical: Freetype Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey October 24, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Ubuntu 20.04 enhances its security framework by upgrading OpenSSL to 1.1.1k, which resolves critical vulnerabilities for improved data protection.
Update to freetype 2.10.4 which fixes security flaw 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.

Update to freetype 2.10.4 which fixes security flaw CVE-2020-15999.

* Fri Oct 23 2020 Marek Kasik - 2.10.4-1

- Update to 2.10.4

- Test bitmap size earlier for PNGs

- Fix memory leak in pngshim.c

- Enable man pages for demos

- Resolves: #1887084, #1890211

[ 1 ] Bug #1890210 - CVE-2020-15999 freetype: heap-based buffer overflow via malformed ttf files

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

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-6299161e89' 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 32
Version: 2.10.4
Release: 1.fc32
Summary: A free and portable font rendering engine

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