A fontforge security update has been released for Fedora 31.
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2020-229ad63391
2020-01-25 06:33:58.982294
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Name : fontforge
Product : Fedora 31
Version : 20190801
Release : 2.fc31
URL : http://fontforge.github.io/
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.
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Update Information:
Security fix for CVE-2020-5395:out-of-bounds write in sfd.c
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ChangeLog:
* Thu Jan 16 2020 Parag Nemade - 20190801-2
- Resolves:rh#1790042 - CVE-2020-5395:out-of-bounds write in sfd.c
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1790041 - CVE-2020-5395 fontforge: out-of-bounds write in SFD_GetFontMetaData function in sfd.c
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1790041
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-229ad63391' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label
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