Fedora 18 Update: freetype-2.4.10-4.fc18
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-4093
2013-03-20 20:46:42
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Name : freetype
Product : Fedora 18
Version : 2.4.10
Release : 4.fc18
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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Update Information:
This update fixes emboldening of certain fonts.
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ChangeLog:
* Tue Mar 19 2013 Marek Kasik <mkasik(a)redhat.com> - 2.4.10-4
- Fix emboldening:
- split out MSB function
- fix integer overflows
- fix broken emboldening at small sizes
- clean up emboldening code and improve comments there
- fortify emboldening code against egregious distortions
- Resolves: #891457
* Thu Jan 24 2013 Marek Kasik <mkasik(a)redhat.com> 2.4.10-3
- Fixes CVE-2012-5669
- Resolves: #903554
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #891457 - uneven emulated Bold/Slant for subsetted large fonts
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=891457
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update freetype' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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