Important Security Patch for Freetype in Scientific Linux SL6 CVE-2011-0226

Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 09:50:27 -0500
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Subject: Security ERRATA Important: freetype on SL6.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis: Important: freetype security update
Issue Date: 2011-07-21
CVE Numbers: CVE-2011-0226

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.

A flaw was found in the way the FreeType font rendering engine processed
certain PostScript Type 1 fonts. 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-2011-0226)

Users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a
backported patch to correct this issue. The X server must be restarted (log
out, then log back in) for this update to take effect.

SL6:
 i386
 freetype-2.3.11-6.el6_1.6.i686.rpm
 freetype-debuginfo-2.3.11-6.el6_1.6.i686.rpm
 freetype-demos-2.3.11-6.el6_1.6.i686.rpm
 freetype-devel-2.3.11-6.el6_1.6.i686.rpm
 x86_64
 freetype-devel-2.3.11-6.el6_1.6.i686.rpm
 freetype-demos-2.3.11-6.el6_1.6.x86_64.rpm
 freetype-debuginfo-2.3.11-6.el6_1.6.x86_64.rpm
 freetype-debuginfo-2.3.11-6.el6_1.6.i686.rpm
 freetype-2.3.11-6.el6_1.6.x86_64.rpm
 freetype-2.3.11-6.el6_1.6.i686.rpm
 freetype-devel-2.3.11-6.el6_1.6.x86_64.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team