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Fedora 36: FEDORA-2022-280ac942be Critical: mingw-SDL2_ttf Memory Overwrite

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Calendar Grey May 11, 2022
Dist Fedora Esm H88
An update rectifying CVE-2022-27470 for mingw-SDL2_ttf in Fedora 36 improves the security of font management.
Security fix for CVE-2022-27470

Summary

Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL2) is a cross-platform multimedia library

designed to provide fast access to the graphics frame buffer and audio device.

This package contains a library that allows you to use TrueType fonts

to render text in SDL2 applications.

Security fix for CVE-2022-27470

* Wed May 4 2022 Artur Frenszek-Iwicki - 2.0.18-3

- Add a patch for CVE-2022-27470

* Fri Mar 25 2022 Sandro Mani - 2.0.18-2

- Rebuild with mingw-gcc-12

[ 1 ] Bug #2081599 - CVE-2022-27470 sdf_ttf: Arbitrary memory overwrite occurs when loading glyphs and rendering text with a malformed TTF file

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2081599

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-280ac942be' 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 36
Version: 2.0.18
Release: 3.fc36
Summary: MinGW Windows port of the TrueType font handling library for SDL2

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