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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2017-950cc68400
2017-05-06 17:08:23.402638
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Name : freetype
Product : Fedora 24
Version : 2.6.3
Release : 5.fc24
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:
Security fixes for CVE-2017-8105 and CVE-2017-8287.
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1446073 - CVE-2017-8287 freetype: heap-based buffer overflow related to the
t1_builder_close_contour function
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1446073
[ 2 ] Bug #1446500 - CVE-2017-8105 freetype: heap-based buffer overflow related to the
t1_decoder_parse_charstrings
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1446500
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade freetype' at the command line.
For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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