Synopsis: Important: freetype security update
Issue Date: 2011-11-16
CVE Numbers: CVE-2011-3439
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FreeType is a free, high-quality, portable font engine that can open and
manage font files. It also loads, hints, and renders individual glyphs
efficiently. The freetype packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 provide
both the FreeType 1 and FreeType 2 font engines. The freetype packages for
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 provide only the FreeType 2 font engine.
Multiple input validation flaws were found in the way FreeType processed
CID-keyed fonts. If a specially-crafted font file was loaded by an
application linked against FreeType, it could cause the application to
crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the
user running the application. (CVE-2011-3439)
Note: These issues only affected the FreeType 2 font engine.
Users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a
backported patch to correct these issues. The X server must be restarted
(log out, then log back in) for this update to take effect.
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SL4
x86_64
freetype-2.1.9-21.el4.i386.rpm
freetype-2.1.9-21.el4.x86_64.rpm
freetype-demos-2.1.9-21.el4.x86_64.rpm
freetype-devel-2.1.9-21.el4.x86_64.rpm
freetype-utils-2.1.9-21.el4.x86_64.rpm
i386
freetype-2.1.9-21.el4.i386.rpm
freetype-demos-2.1.9-21.el4.i386.rpm
freetype-devel-2.1.9-21.el4.i386.rpm
freetype-utils-2.1.9-21.el4.i386.rpm
SL5
x86_64
freetype-2.2.1-28.el5_7.2.i386.rpm
freetype-2.2.1-28.el5_7.2.x86_64.rpm
freetype-demos-2.2.1-28.el5_7.2.x86_64.rpm
freetype-devel-2.2.1-28.el5_7.2.i386.rpm
freetype-devel-2.2.1-28.el5_7.2.x86_64.rpm
i386
freetype-2.2.1-28.el5_7.2.i386.rpm
freetype-demos-2.2.1-28.el5_7.2.i386.rpm
freetype-devel-2.2.1-28.el5_7.2.i386.rpm
SL6
x86_64
freetype-2.3.11-6.el6_1.8.i686.rpm
freetype-2.3.11-6.el6_1.8.x86_64.rpm
freetype-demos-2.3.11-6.el6_1.8.x86_64.rpm
freetype-devel-2.3.11-6.el6_1.8.i686.rpm
freetype-devel-2.3.11-6.el6_1.8.x86_64.rpm
i386
freetype-2.3.11-6.el6_1.8.i686.rpm
freetype-demos-2.3.11-6.el6_1.8.i686.rpm
freetype-devel-2.3.11-6.el6_1.8.i686.rpm
– Scientific Linux Development Team
