[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: libXfont-1.5.1-1.fc21

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-4230
2015-03-21 00:12:23
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Name        : libXfont
Product     : Fedora 21
Version     : 1.5.1
Release     : 1.fc21
URL         : http://www.x.org
Summary     : X.Org X11 libXfont runtime library
Description :
X.Org X11 libXfont runtime library

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Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2015-1802, CVE-2015-1803, CVE-2015-1804
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Mar 18 2015 Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at redhat.com> 1.5.1-1
- libXfont 1.5.1 (CVE-2015-1802, CVE-2015-1803, CVE-2015-1804)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1203715 - CVE-2015-1802 libXfont: missing range check in bdfReadProperties
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1203715
  [ 2 ] Bug #1203718 - CVE-2015-1803 libXfont: crash on invalid read in bdfReadCharacters
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1203718
  [ 3 ] Bug #1203719 - CVE-2015-1804 libXfont: out-of-bounds memory access in bdfReadCharacters
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1203719
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use
su -c 'yum update libXfont' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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