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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5: RHSA-2009:1061-02 Critical: Freetype Overflow

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Calendar Grey May 22, 2009
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Newly released freetype updates for Red Hat address significant vulnerabilities affecting both security and application reliability. Users are urged to upgrade.
Updated freetype packages that fix various security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at

Summary

FreeType is a free, high-quality, portable font engine that can open and manage font files. It also loads, hints, and renders individual glyphs efficiently. These packages provide the FreeType 2 font engine.
Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team discovered several integer overflow flaws in the FreeType 2 font engine. If a user loaded a carefully-crafted font file with an application linked against FreeType 2, it could cause the application to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application. (CVE-2009-0946)
Users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct these issues. The X server must be restarted (log out, then log back in) for this update to take effect.

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Topics Covered

security advisory update important overflow red hat enterprise linux freetype redhat

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-0946 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client):
Source:
i386: freetype-2.2.1-21.el5_3.i386.rpm freetype-debuginfo-2.2.1-21.el5_3.i386.rpm
x86_64: freetype-2.2.1-21.el5_3.i386.rpm freetype-2.2.1-21.el5_3.x86_64.rpm freetype-debuginfo-2.2.1-21.el5_3.i386.rpm freetype-debuginfo-2.2.1-21.el5_3.x86_64.rpm
RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client):
Source:
i386: freetype-debuginfo-2.2.1-21.el5_3.i386.rpm freetype-demos-2.2.1-21.el5_3.i386.rpm freetype-devel-2.2.1-21.el5_3.i386.rpm
x86_64: freetype-debuginfo-2.2.1-21.el5_3.i386.rpm freetype-debuginfo-2.2.1-21.el5_3.x86_64.rpm freetype-demos-2.2.1-21.el5_3.x86_64.rpm freetype-devel-2.2.1-21.el5_3.i386.rpm freetype-devel-2.2.1-21.el5_3.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server):
Source:
i386: freetype-2.2.1-21.el5_3.i386.rpm freetype-debuginfo-2.2.1-21.el5_3.i386.rpm freetype-demos-2.2.1-21.el5_3.i386.rpm freetype-devel-2.2.1-21.el5_3.i386.rpm
ia64: freetype-2.2.1-21.el5_3.i386.rpm freetype-2.2.1-21.el5_3.ia64.rpm freetype-debuginfo-2.2.1-21.el5_3.i386.rpm freetype-debuginfo-2.2.1-21.el5_3.ia64.rpm freetype-demos-2.2.1-21.el5_3.ia64.rpm freetype-devel-2.2.1-21.el5_3.ia64.rpm
ppc: freetype-2.2.1-21.el5_3.ppc.rpm freetype-2.2.1-21.el5_3.ppc64.rpm freetype-debuginfo-2.2.1-21.el5_3.ppc.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2009:1061-02
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009:1061.html
Issue date: 2009-05-22

Topic

Updated freetype packages that fix various security issues are nowavailable for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.This update has been rated as having important security impact by the RedHat Security Response Team.

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Topics Covered

security advisory update important overflow red hat enterprise linux freetype redhat

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64

RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) - i386, ia64, ppc, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

491384 - CVE-2009-0946 freetype: multiple integer overflows

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