(RHSA-2011:1402) Important: freetype security update

2011-10-2500:00:00

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4.3 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

NONE

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

0.023 Low

EPSS

Percentile

88.6%

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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
bitmap font files. 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-2011-3256)

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.

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
RedHat4ppc64freetype< 2.1.9-20.el4freetype-2.1.9-20.el4.ppc64.rpm
RedHat5i386freetype-demos< 2.2.1-28.el5_7.1freetype-demos-2.2.1-28.el5_7.1.i386.rpm
RedHat4s390xfreetype-utils< 2.1.9-20.el4freetype-utils-2.1.9-20.el4.s390x.rpm
RedHat5srcfreetype< 2.2.1-28.el5_7.1freetype-2.2.1-28.el5_7.1.src.rpm
RedHat6s390freetype-devel< 2.3.11-6.el6_1.7freetype-devel-2.3.11-6.el6_1.7.s390.rpm
RedHat6s390xfreetype< 2.3.11-6.el6_1.7freetype-2.3.11-6.el6_1.7.s390x.rpm
RedHat4s390freetype-utils< 2.1.9-20.el4freetype-utils-2.1.9-20.el4.s390.rpm
RedHat4i386freetype-demos< 2.1.9-20.el4freetype-demos-2.1.9-20.el4.i386.rpm
RedHat4ia64freetype-devel< 2.1.9-20.el4freetype-devel-2.1.9-20.el4.ia64.rpm
RedHat5ppcfreetype-demos< 2.2.1-28.el5_7.1freetype-demos-2.2.1-28.el5_7.1.ppc.rpm

OS	Version	Architecture	Package	Version	Filename
RedHat	4	ppc64	freetype	< 2.1.9-20.el4	freetype-2.1.9-20.el4.ppc64.rpm
RedHat	5	i386	freetype-demos	< 2.2.1-28.el5_7.1	freetype-demos-2.2.1-28.el5_7.1.i386.rpm
RedHat	4	s390x	freetype-utils	< 2.1.9-20.el4	freetype-utils-2.1.9-20.el4.s390x.rpm
RedHat	5	src	freetype	< 2.2.1-28.el5_7.1	freetype-2.2.1-28.el5_7.1.src.rpm
RedHat	6	s390	freetype-devel	< 2.3.11-6.el6_1.7	freetype-devel-2.3.11-6.el6_1.7.s390.rpm
RedHat	6	s390x	freetype	< 2.3.11-6.el6_1.7	freetype-2.3.11-6.el6_1.7.s390x.rpm
RedHat	4	s390	freetype-utils	< 2.1.9-20.el4	freetype-utils-2.1.9-20.el4.s390.rpm
RedHat	4	i386	freetype-demos	< 2.1.9-20.el4	freetype-demos-2.1.9-20.el4.i386.rpm
RedHat	4	ia64	freetype-devel	< 2.1.9-20.el4	freetype-devel-2.1.9-20.el4.ia64.rpm
RedHat	5	ppc	freetype-demos	< 2.2.1-28.el5_7.1	freetype-demos-2.2.1-28.el5_7.1.ppc.rpm