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A freetype security update has been released for Fedora 36.



SECURITY: Fedora 36 Update: freetype-2.12.1-1.fc36


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2022-2dd60f1f00
2022-05-07 04:08:14.319147
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Name : freetype
Product : Fedora 36
Version : 2.12.1
Release : 1.fc36
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:

Update to freetype 2.12.1 which fixes CVE-2022-27404, CVE-2022-27405,
CVE-2022-27406 and adds support for OT-SVG fonts.
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ChangeLog:

* Mon May 2 2022 Marek Kasik - 2.12.1-1
- Update to 2.12.1
- Resolves: #2080714
* Mon Apr 25 2022 Marek Kasik - 2.12.0-1
- Update to 2.12.0
- Resolves: #2070686
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2077985 - CVE-2022-27406 Freetype: Segmentation violation
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2077985
[ 2 ] Bug #2077989 - CVE-2022-27404 FreeType: Buffer Overflow
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2077989
[ 3 ] Bug #2077991 - CVE-2022-27405 FreeType: Segementation Fault
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2077991
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-2dd60f1f00' 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

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
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