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RedHat: RHSA-2020-4951-01 Important: freetype Buffer Overflow Threat

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Calendar Grey November 5, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Crucial freetype enhancement for Red Hat EUS resolves a significant buffer overflow vulnerability featuring a high-security risk level.
An update for freetype is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update Support

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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow red hat important freetype

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 EUS (v. 8.2):
Source: freetype-2.9.1-4.el8_2.1.src.rpm
aarch64: freetype-2.9.1-4.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm freetype-debuginfo-2.9.1-4.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm freetype-debugsource-2.9.1-4.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm freetype-demos-debuginfo-2.9.1-4.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm freetype-devel-2.9.1-4.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: freetype-2.9.1-4.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm freetype-debuginfo-2.9.1-4.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm freetype-debugsource-2.9.1-4.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm freetype-demos-debuginfo-2.9.1-4.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm freetype-devel-2.9.1-4.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: freetype-2.9.1-4.el8_2.1.s390x.rpm freetype-debuginfo-2.9.1-4.el8_2.1.s390x.rpm freetype-debugsource-2.9.1-4.el8_2.1.s390x.rpm freetype-demos-debuginfo-2.9.1-4.el8_2.1.s390x.rpm freetype-devel-2.9.1-4.el8_2.1.s390x.rpm
x86_64: freetype-2.9.1-4.el8_2.1.i686.rpm freetype-2.9.1-4.el8_2.1.x86_64.rpm freetype-debuginfo-2.9.1-4.el8_2.1.i686.rpm freetype-debuginfo-2.9.1-4.el8_2.1.x86_64.rpm freetype-debugsource-2.9.1-4.el8_2.1.i686.rpm freetype-debugsource-2.9.1-4.el8_2.1.x86_64.rpm freetype-demos-debuginfo-2.9.1-4.el8_2.1.i686.rpm freetype-demos-debuginfo-2.9.1-4.el8_2.1.x86_64.rpm freetype-devel-2.9.1-4.el8_2.1.i686.rpm freetype-devel-2.9.1-4.el8_2.1.x86_64.rpm


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:4951-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4951
Issue date: 2020-11-05

Topic

An update for freetype is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2Extended Update Support.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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow red hat important freetype

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v. 8.2) - 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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