[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: freetype-2.4.6-5.fc16

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-4946
2012-03-31 02:10:47
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Name        : freetype
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 2.4.6
Release     : 5.fc16
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:

This update fixes various CVEs
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Mar 30 2012 Marek Kasik <mkasik at redhat.com> 2.4.6-5
- Fixes various CVEs
- Resolves: #806270
* Tue Nov 15 2011 Marek Kasik <mkasik at redhat.com> 2.4.6-4
- Fix CVE-2011-3439
- Resolves: #753837
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #806270 - CVE-2012-{1126,1127,1128,1130,1131,1132,1133,1134,1135,1136,1137,1138,1139,1140,1141,1142,1143,1144} freetype: multiple vulnerabilities [fedora-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=806270
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