[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: freetype-2.5.0-7.fc20

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-16854
2014-12-13 08:33:02
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Name        : freetype
Product     : Fedora 20
Version     : 2.5.0
Release     : 7.fc20
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 prevents freetype from a buffer overflow.
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Dec 11 2014 Marek Kasik <mkasik at redhat.com> - 2.5.0-7
- Suppress an assert when hintMap.count == 0 in specific situations.
- Resolves: #1172634
* Wed Dec 10 2014 Marek Kasik <mkasik at redhat.com> - 2.5.0-6
- Don't append to stem arrays after hintmask is constructed.
- Resolves: #1172634
* Tue Mar 11 2014 Marek Kasik <mkasik at redhat.com> - 2.5.0-5
- Add freetype-2.5.0-CVE-2014-2240.patch
    (Return when `hintMask' is invalid.)
- Add freetype-2.5.0-CVE-2014-2241.patch
    (Don't call non-existing subroutines.)
- Resolves: #1074647
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1172633 - freetype: OOB stack-based read/write in cf2_hintmap_build() (incomplete fix for CVE-2014-2240).
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1172633
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