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[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: freetype-2.3.4-3.fc7

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2007-0033
2007-06-01 05:10:26
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Name        : freetype
Product     : Fedora 7
Version     : 2.3.4
Release     : 3.fc7
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:

This update fixes a bug in FreeType font rasterization engine that could cause
a carefully crafted TrueType font to crash applications trying to use it.
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ChangeLog:

* Thu May 31 2007 Behdad Esfahbod <besfahbo redhat com> 2.3.4-3
- Add freetype-2.3.4-ttf-overflow.patch
* Thu Apr 12 2007 Behdad Esfahbod <besfahbo redhat com> 2.3.4-2
- Add alpha to 64-bit archs (#236166)
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References:

[ 1 ]  Bug #240577
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=240577
[ 2 ]  CVE-2007-2754
http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-2754
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Updated packages:

1576a18681b5580e53614559a58b8bb87528e2e4 freetype-devel-2.3.4-3.fc7.ppc64.rpm
1bddaae976740d59c4b54325d1de2a9d18d2b7d5 freetype-demos-2.3.4-3.fc7.ppc64.rpm
e6372f6e32d854997e3c86084ea864115dbe5a57 freetype-2.3.4-3.fc7.ppc64.rpm
1ac840dea16a77b9d733b35039e7b5bf9b008467 freetype-debuginfo-2.3.4-3.fc7.ppc64.rpm
4199b4fe9bb1feaa3fc6e825cee8bf27ee257f8f freetype-2.3.4-3.fc7.i386.rpm
c2c16ccee25353f3e76bd32a502cb6b19f8f8fca freetype-devel-2.3.4-3.fc7.i386.rpm
c9ed324b1d6c44810c1e9bb80461edb15c9f604a freetype-debuginfo-2.3.4-3.fc7.i386.rpm
ad2a4c879c9cd6e63c65d7e1581363426095a22d freetype-demos-2.3.4-3.fc7.i386.rpm
32f1d5dc67e217d95e844dfa1ec45ddb4bbb429d freetype-2.3.4-3.fc7.x86_64.rpm
17796fed2280cbbc9e1d5224406480e69def1f70 freetype-demos-2.3.4-3.fc7.x86_64.rpm
87bb984b21ad73be7d202a7d052c8f141d3695fe freetype-devel-2.3.4-3.fc7.x86_64.rpm
d883a4ab97f600834a90e865584a29caf384b646 freetype-debuginfo-2.3.4-3.fc7.x86_64.rpm
e630c5a928c329cc6aa49e5d2f2ad009c503b09b freetype-demos-2.3.4-3.fc7.ppc.rpm
9593fc7c5e017ef1b6a8a09645ee5f7cfcff1c9d freetype-debuginfo-2.3.4-3.fc7.ppc.rpm
a3c6b6f01ed096f9b6568f24342289c3736d1f4c freetype-2.3.4-3.fc7.ppc.rpm
e6ebfe44dcb86d301675c4a748030ba8a76e924c freetype-devel-2.3.4-3.fc7.ppc.rpm
d08a9d43bbabddcb28a0e97a878fdefe2ab7ccf8 freetype-2.3.4-3.fc7.src.rpm

This update can be installed with the 'yum' update program.  Use 'yum update
package-name' at the command line.  For more information, refer to 'Managing
Software with yum,' available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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