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Scientific Linux: Important Freetype Update Addresses Stack Overflow

Calendar Aug 06, 2010 • User Avatar LinuxSecurity Advisories
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Important: freetype security update 
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 14:12:48 -0500
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA Important: freetype on SL3.x, SL4.x,
 SL5.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Important: freetype security update
Issue date:	2010-08-05
CVE Names:	CVE-2010-1797

Two stack overflow flaws were found in the way the FreeType font engine
processed certain Compact Font Format (CFF) character strings (opcodes).
If a user loaded a specially-crafted font file with an application
linked against FreeType, it could cause the application to crash or,
possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running
the application. (CVE-2010-1797)

Note: CVE-2010-1797 only affects the FreeType 2 font engine.

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

SL 3.0.x

 SRPMS:
freetype-2.1.4-16.el3.src.rpm
 i386:
freetype-2.1.4-16.el3.i386.rpm
freetype-demos-2.1.4-16.el3.i386.rpm
freetype-devel-2.1.4-16.el3.i386.rpm
freetype-utils-2.1.4-16.el3.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
freetype-2.1.4-16.el3.i386.rpm
freetype-2.1.4-16.el3.x86_64.rpm
freetype-demos-2.1.4-16.el3.x86_64.rpm
freetype-devel-2.1.4-16.el3.x86_64.rpm
freetype-utils-2.1.4-16.el3.x86_64.rpm

SL 4.x

 SRPMS:
freetype-2.1.9-15.el4.8.src.rpm
 i386:
freetype-2.1.9-15.el4.8.i386.rpm
freetype-demos-2.1.9-15.el4.8.i386.rpm
freetype-devel-2.1.9-15.el4.8.i386.rpm
freetype-utils-2.1.9-15.el4.8.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
freetype-2.1.9-15.el4.8.i386.rpm
freetype-2.1.9-15.el4.8.x86_64.rpm
freetype-demos-2.1.9-15.el4.8.x86_64.rpm
freetype-devel-2.1.9-15.el4.8.x86_64.rpm
freetype-utils-2.1.9-15.el4.8.x86_64.rpm

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
freetype-2.2.1-26.el5_5.src.rpm
 i386:
freetype-2.2.1-26.el5_5.i386.rpm
freetype-demos-2.2.1-26.el5_5.i386.rpm
freetype-devel-2.2.1-26.el5_5.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
freetype-2.2.1-26.el5_5.i386.rpm
freetype-2.2.1-26.el5_5.x86_64.rpm
freetype-demos-2.2.1-26.el5_5.x86_64.rpm
freetype-devel-2.2.1-26.el5_5.i386.rpm
freetype-devel-2.2.1-26.el5_5.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson