[SECURITY] Fedora 13 Update: fontforge-20090923-4.fc13
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Mon Dec 13 20:10:01 UTC 2010
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-18577
2010-12-05 19:41:42
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Name : fontforge
Product : Fedora 13
Version : 20090923
Release : 4.fc13
URL : http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/
Summary : Outline and bitmap font editor
Description :
FontForge (former PfaEdit) is a font editor for outline and bitmap
fonts. It supports a range of font formats, including PostScript
(ASCII and binary Type 1, some Type 3 and Type 0), TrueType, OpenType
(Type2) and CID-keyed fonts.
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Update Information:
fixes CVE-2010-4259 crash. See bug for proof of concept to test with.
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ChangeLog:
* Sat Dec 4 2010 Kevin Fenzi <kevin at tummy.com> - 20090923-4
- Add patch to fix CVE-2010-4259 (fixes #659359)
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #659359 - CVE-2010-4259 FontForge: Stack-based buffer overflow by processing specially-crafted CHARSET_REGISTRY font file header
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=659359
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update fontforge' at the command line.
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available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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