[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: freetype-2.4.4-8.fc15

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-5422
2012-04-06 20:56:57
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Name        : freetype
Product     : Fedora 15
Version     : 2.4.4
Release     : 8.fc15
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:

* Wed Apr  4 2012 Marek Kasik <mkasik at redhat.com> 2.4.4-8
- Fixes various CVEs
- Resolves: #806270
* Tue Nov 15 2011 Marek Kasik <mkasik at redhat.com> 2.4.4-7
- Fix CVE-2011-3439
- Resolves: #753837
* Thu Oct 20 2011 Marek Kasik <mkasik at redhat.com> 2.4.4-6
- Add freetype-2.4.4-CVE-2011-3256.patch
    (Handle some border cases)
    - based on patch by Braden Thomas
* Wed Jul 20 2011 Marek Kasik <mkasik at redhat.com> 2.4.4-5
- Add freetype-2.4.4-CVE-2011-0226.patch
    (Add better argument check for `callothersubr'.)
    - based on patches by Werner Lemberg,
      Alexei Podtelezhnikov and Matthias Drochner
- Resolves: #723469
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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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