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Fedora 34: 2022-5e45671294 Critical Freetype Buffer Overflow Alert

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Calendar Grey May 19, 2022
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Emergency updates for freetype that resolve serious buffer overrun issues and memory access violations in Fedora 34's system notifications.
Security fix for CVE-2022-27404, CVE-2022-27405 and CVE-2022-27406.

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-2022-27404, CVE-2022-27405 and CVE-2022-27406.

* Tue May 3 2022 Marek Kasik - 2.10.4-6

- Guard face->size

- Resolves: #2079181

* Tue May 3 2022 Marek Kasik - 2.10.4-5

- Properly guard "face_index"

- Resolves: #2079255

* Tue May 3 2022 Marek Kasik - 2.10.4-4

- Avoid invalid face index

- Resolves: #2079203

[ 1 ] Bug #2077985 - CVE-2022-27406 Freetype: Segmentation violation

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2077985

[ 2 ] Bug #2077989 - CVE-2022-27404 FreeType: Buffer Overflow

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2077989

[ 3 ] Bug #2077991 - CVE-2022-27405 FreeType: Segementation Fault

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2077991

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-5e45671294' 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 34
Version: 2.10.4
Release: 6.fc34
Summary: A free and portable font rendering engine

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