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A mingw-SDL2_ttf security update has been released for Fedora 36.



SECURITY: Fedora 36 Update: mingw-SDL2_ttf-2.0.18-3.fc36


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2022-280ac942be
2022-05-12 01:12:10.550983
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Name : mingw-SDL2_ttf
Product : Fedora 36
Version : 2.0.18
Release : 3.fc36
URL :   https://www.libSDL.org/projects/SDL_ttf/
Summary : MinGW Windows port of the TrueType font handling library for SDL2
Description :
Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL2) is a cross-platform multimedia library
designed to provide fast access to the graphics frame buffer and audio device.
This package contains a library that allows you to use TrueType fonts
to render text in SDL2 applications.

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Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2022-27470
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ChangeLog:

* Wed May 4 2022 Artur Frenszek-Iwicki - 2.0.18-3
- Add a patch for CVE-2022-27470
* Fri Mar 25 2022 Sandro Mani - 2.0.18-2
- Rebuild with mingw-gcc-12
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2081599 - CVE-2022-27470 sdf_ttf: Arbitrary memory overwrite occurs when loading glyphs and rendering text with a malformed TTF file
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2081599
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-280ac942be' 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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