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A freetype security update has been released for Fedora 31.



SECURITY: Fedora 31 Update: freetype-2.10.0-4.fc31


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2020-6b35849edd
2020-11-07 01:28:13.283064
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Name : freetype
Product : Fedora 31
Version : 2.10.0
Release : 4.fc31
URL :   http://www.freetype.org
Summary : A free and portable font rendering engine
Description :
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.

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Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2020-15999.
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Oct 23 2020 Marek Kasik - 2.10.0-4
- Test bitmap size earlier for PNGs
- Fix memory leak in pngshim.c
- Resolves: #1890211
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #1890210 - CVE-2020-15999 freetype: Heap-based buffer overflow due to integer truncation in Load_SBit_Png
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1890210
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-6b35849edd' 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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