-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2010-18573 2010-12-05 19:41:30 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : fontforge Product : Fedora 14 Version : 20100501 Release : 5.fc14 URL : http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/ Summary : Outline and bitmap font editor Description : FontForge (former PfaEdit) is a font editor for outline and bitmap fonts. It supports a range of font formats, including PostScript (ASCII and binary Type 1, some Type 3 and Type 0), TrueType, OpenType (Type2) and CID-keyed fonts. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Fixes CVE-2010-4259 crash. See bug for proof of concept test. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Sat Dec 4 2010 Kevin Fenzi <[email protected]> - 20100501-5 - Add patch for CVE-2010-4259 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #659359 - CVE-2010-4259 FontForge: Stack-based buffer overflow by processing specially-crafted CHARSET_REGISTRY font file header https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=659359 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update fontforge' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-announce
