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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2010-3753
2010-12-05 17:45:00
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Name : fontforge
Product : Fedora EPEL 5
Version : 20061025
Release : 3.el5
URL :
http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/
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:
Fix for CVE-2010-4259. See bug for proof of concept to test.
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #659359 - CVE-2010-4259 FontForge: Stack-based buffer overflow by processing
specially-crafted CHARSET_REGISTRY font file header
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=659359
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use
su -c 'yum update fontforge' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL 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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