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Red Hat: RHSA-2020-4949-01 Important: Freetype Heap Overflow

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Calendar Grey November 5, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A significant patch has been released for freetype within Red Hat, targeting a critical buffer overflow vulnerability that affects Enterprise Linux 8.0.
An update for freetype is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

The X server must be restarted (log out, then log back in) for this update to take effect.

Summary

FreeType is a free, high-quality, portable font engine that can open and manage font files. FreeType loads, hints, and renders individual glyphs efficiently.
Security Fix(es):
* freetype: Heap-based buffer overflow due to integer truncation in Load_SBit_Png (CVE-2020-15999)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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Topics Covered

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References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-15999 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.0):
Source: freetype-2.9.1-4.el8_0.1.src.rpm
aarch64: freetype-2.9.1-4.el8_0.1.aarch64.rpm freetype-debuginfo-2.9.1-4.el8_0.1.aarch64.rpm freetype-debugsource-2.9.1-4.el8_0.1.aarch64.rpm freetype-demos-debuginfo-2.9.1-4.el8_0.1.aarch64.rpm freetype-devel-2.9.1-4.el8_0.1.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: freetype-2.9.1-4.el8_0.1.ppc64le.rpm freetype-debuginfo-2.9.1-4.el8_0.1.ppc64le.rpm freetype-debugsource-2.9.1-4.el8_0.1.ppc64le.rpm freetype-demos-debuginfo-2.9.1-4.el8_0.1.ppc64le.rpm freetype-devel-2.9.1-4.el8_0.1.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: freetype-2.9.1-4.el8_0.1.s390x.rpm freetype-debuginfo-2.9.1-4.el8_0.1.s390x.rpm freetype-debugsource-2.9.1-4.el8_0.1.s390x.rpm freetype-demos-debuginfo-2.9.1-4.el8_0.1.s390x.rpm freetype-devel-2.9.1-4.el8_0.1.s390x.rpm
x86_64: freetype-2.9.1-4.el8_0.1.i686.rpm freetype-2.9.1-4.el8_0.1.x86_64.rpm freetype-debuginfo-2.9.1-4.el8_0.1.i686.rpm freetype-debuginfo-2.9.1-4.el8_0.1.x86_64.rpm freetype-debugsource-2.9.1-4.el8_0.1.i686.rpm freetype-debugsource-2.9.1-4.el8_0.1.x86_64.rpm freetype-demos-debuginfo-2.9.1-4.el8_0.1.i686.rpm freetype-demos-debuginfo-2.9.1-4.el8_0.1.x86_64.rpm freetype-devel-2.9.1-4.el8_0.1.i686.rpm freetype-devel-2.9.1-4.el8_0.1.x86_64.rpm


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:4949-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4949
Issue date: 2020-11-05

Topic

An update for freetype is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0Update Services for SAP Solutions.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat important heap overflow security impact freetype

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v. 8.0) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1890210 - CVE-2020-15999 freetype: Heap-based buffer overflow due to integer truncation in Load_SBit_Png

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