SciLinux: Important Freetype Update for SL4.x, SL5.x, SL6.x

Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 16:09:18 -0500
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Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Pat Riehecky 
Subject: Security ERRATA Important: freetype on SL4.x, SL5.x,
 SL6.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis: Important: freetype security update
Issue Date: 2011-10-25
CVE Numbers: CVE-2011-3256

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. The freetype packages for Scientific Linux 4 provide
both the FreeType 1 and FreeType 2 font engines. The freetype packages for
Scientific Linux 5 and 6 provide only the FreeType 2 font engine.

Multiple input validation flaws were found in the way FreeType processed
bitmap font files. If a specially-crafted font file was loaded by an
application linked against FreeType, it could cause the application to
crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the
user running the application. (CVE-2011-3256)

Note: These issues only affected the FreeType 2 font engine.

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

SL4:
 i386
 freetype-2.1.9-20.el4.i386.rpm
 freetype-debuginfo-2.1.9-20.el4.i386.rpm
 freetype-demos-2.1.9-20.el4.i386.rpm
 freetype-devel-2.1.9-20.el4.i386.rpm
 freetype-utils-2.1.9-20.el4.i386.rpm
 x86_64
 freetype-2.1.9-20.el4.i386.rpm
 freetype-2.1.9-20.el4.x86_64.rpm
 freetype-debuginfo-2.1.9-20.el4.i386.rpm
 freetype-debuginfo-2.1.9-20.el4.x86_64.rpm
 freetype-demos-2.1.9-20.el4.x86_64.rpm
 freetype-devel-2.1.9-20.el4.x86_64.rpm
 freetype-utils-2.1.9-20.el4.x86_64.rpm
SL5:
 i386
 freetype-2.2.1-28.el5_7.1.i386.rpm
 freetype-debuginfo-2.2.1-28.el5_7.1.i386.rpm
 freetype-demos-2.2.1-28.el5_7.1.i386.rpm
 freetype-devel-2.2.1-28.el5_7.1.i386.rpm
 x86_64
 freetype-2.2.1-28.el5_7.1.i386.rpm
 freetype-2.2.1-28.el5_7.1.x86_64.rpm
 freetype-debuginfo-2.2.1-28.el5_7.1.i386.rpm
 freetype-debuginfo-2.2.1-28.el5_7.1.x86_64.rpm
 freetype-demos-2.2.1-28.el5_7.1.x86_64.rpm
 freetype-devel-2.2.1-28.el5_7.1.i386.rpm
 freetype-devel-2.2.1-28.el5_7.1.x86_64.rpm
SL6:
 i386
 freetype-2.3.11-6.el6_1.7.i686.rpm
 freetype-debuginfo-2.3.11-6.el6_1.7.i686.rpm
 freetype-demos-2.3.11-6.el6_1.7.i686.rpm
 freetype-devel-2.3.11-6.el6_1.7.i686.rpm
 x86_64
 freetype-2.3.11-6.el6_1.7.i686.rpm
 freetype-2.3.11-6.el6_1.7.x86_64.rpm
 freetype-debuginfo-2.3.11-6.el6_1.7.i686.rpm
 freetype-debuginfo-2.3.11-6.el6_1.7.x86_64.rpm
 freetype-demos-2.3.11-6.el6_1.7.x86_64.rpm
 freetype-devel-2.3.11-6.el6_1.7.i686.rpm
 freetype-devel-2.3.11-6.el6_1.7.x86_64.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team