Scientific Linux 4.x Moderate Update for freetype - Buffer Overflow Risk

Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:28:43 -0500
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
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From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA Moderate: freetype on SL4.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis: Moderate: freetype security update
Issue Date: 2011-08-15
CVE Numbers: CVE-2011-2895

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 both the FreeType 1 and FreeType 2
font engines.

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the FreeType library handled
malformed font files compressed using UNIX compress. If a user loaded a
specially-crafted compressed 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-2011-2895)

Note: This issue only affects the FreeType 2 font engine.

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.

SL4:
 i386
 freetype-2.1.9-19.el4.i386.rpm
 freetype-demos-2.1.9-19.el4.i386.rpm
 freetype-devel-2.1.9-19.el4.i386.rpm
 freetype-utils-2.1.9-19.el4.i386.rpm
 x86_64
 freetype-2.1.9-19.el4.i386.rpm
 freetype-2.1.9-19.el4.x86_64.rpm
 freetype-demos-2.1.9-19.el4.x86_64.rpm
 freetype-devel-2.1.9-19.el4.x86_64.rpm
 freetype-utils-2.1.9-19.el4.x86_64.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team