[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: freetype-2.4.4-6.fc15

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-14749
2011-10-22 07:43:51
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Name        : freetype
Product     : Fedora 15
Version     : 2.4.4
Release     : 6.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 CVE-2011-3256
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ChangeLog:

* 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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