[SECURITY] Fedora 14 Update: freetype-2.4.2-4.fc14

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-17742
2010-11-15 21:22:11
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Name        : freetype
Product     : Fedora 14
Version     : 2.4.2
Release     : 4.fc14
URL         : http://www.freetype.org
Summary     : A free and portable font rendering engine
Description :
The FreeType engine is a free and portable font rendering
engine, developed to provide advanced font support for a variety of
platforms and environments. FreeType is a library which can open and
manages font files as well as efficiently load, hint and render
individual glyphs. FreeType is not a font server or a complete
text-rendering library.

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ChangeLog:

* Mon Nov 15 2010 Marek Kasik <mkasik at redhat.com> 2.4.2-4
- Add freetype-2.4.2-CVE-2010-3855.patch
    (Protect against invalid `runcnt' values.)
- Resolves: #651764
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #645275 - CVE-2010-3855 Freetype : Heap based buffer overflow in ft_var_readpackedpoints()
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=645275
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