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Fedora 38: FEDORA-2023-a48406ecd2 Critical: freetype Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey March 14, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 38 release tackles CVE-2023-25195 in libc, bringing critical improvements with enhanced memory safety features. Upgrade using DNF for vital updates.
Security fix for CVE-2023-25193 Update of HarfBuzz to 7.0.1 version (#2169172) Update of freetype to 2.13.0 version (#2168496) ---- Security fix for CVE-2023-25193, Update to 7.0.1...

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-2023-25193 Update of HarfBuzz to 7.0.1 version (#2169172)

Update of freetype to 2.13.0 version (#2168496) ---- Security fix for

CVE-2023-25193, Update to 7.0.1 version (#2169172)

* Sun Feb 26 2023 Marek Kasik - 2.13.0-2

- Rebuild in side-tag

- Resolves: #2168496

* Sun Feb 26 2023 Marek Kasik - 2.13.0-1

- Update to 2.13.0

- Resolves: #2168496

[ 1 ] Bug #2167254 - CVE-2023-25193 harfbuzz: allows attackers to trigger O(n^2) growth via consecutive marks

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2167254

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https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Product: Fedora 38
Version: 2.13.0
Release: 2.fc38
Summary: A free and portable font rendering engine

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