Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 764
Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 764

SUSE: 2020:2995-1 Important: Freetype2 Heap Buffer Overflow Fix

suse
Calendar Grey October 22, 2020
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE Security Patch for freetype2 resolves critical heap overflow vulnerabilities along with detailed installation guidelines.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Summary

This update for freetype2 fixes the following issues: - CVE-2020-15999: fixed a heap buffer overflow found in the handling of embedded PNG bitmaps (bsc#1177914). Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 15: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-2020-2995=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-2020-2995=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15-SP2: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Desktop-Applications-15-SP2-2020-2995=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP2:

References

#1177914

Cross- CVE-2020-15999

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 15

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15-SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-ESPOS

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-15999.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1177914

Severity
important
Lowest
Low
Medium
High
Critical

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2020:2995-1
Rating: important

Get the latest News and Insights

Get the latest Linux and open source security news straight to your inbox.

Your message here