[SECURITY] Fedora 10 Update: freetype1-1.4-0.8.pre.fc10

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-5558
2009-05-28 07:01:35
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Name        : freetype1
Product     : Fedora 10
Version     : 1.4
Release     : 0.8.pre.fc10
URL         : http://www.freetype.org
Summary     : Free TrueType font rendering engine, compatibility version
Description :
The FreeType engine is a free and portable TrueType font rendering engine,
developed to provide TrueType 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.
This package contains the obsolote version 1.x of FreeType for applications
which still need this old version. New applications should use the more
advanced FreeType 2.x library packaged as freetype.

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Update Information:

Port of freetype2 security fixes
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ChangeLog:

* Tue May 26 2009 Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> 1.4-0.8.pre
- cve-2006-1861.patch, cve-2007-2754.patch: Port of freetype2 fixes. (#502565)
* Tue Feb 24 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.4-0.7.pre
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Mass_Rebuild
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #502565 - CVE-2006-1861 CVE-2007-2754 Multiple freetype1 vulnerabilities [Fedora rawhide]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502565
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