| Description: | Description:
The remote host is missing an update to freetype
announced via advisory FEDORA-2008-5425.
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.
Update Information:
This update backports security fixes from upstream version 2.3.6 -
CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1807 and CVE-2008-1808. For further details, see:
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=715
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=716
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=717
Note: TTF bytecode interpreter is not enabled by default in the Fedora freetype
packages, therefore Fedora packages were not affected by the TTF part of the
CVE-2008-1808.
ChangeLog:
* Tue Jun 17 2008 Behdad Esfahbod 2.3.5-6
- Add freetype-2.3.5-CVEs.patch
- Resolves: #451213
* Fri May 23 2008 Dennis Gilmore - 2.3.5-5
- add sparc64 to list of 64 bit arches
References:
[ 1 ] Bug #450768 - CVE-2008-1806 FreeType PFB integer overflow
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450768
[ 2 ] Bug #450774 - CVE-2008-1808 FreeType off-by-one flaws
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450774
[ 3 ] Bug #450773 - CVE-2008-1807 FreeType invalid free() flaw
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450773
Solution: Apply the appropriate updates.
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/.
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FEDORA-2008-5425
Risk factor : High
CVSS Score:
7.5
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