| Description: | Description:
The remote host is missing updates announced in
advisory RHSA-2008:0558.
FreeType is a free, high-quality, portable font engine that can open and
manage font files, as well as efficiently load, hint and render individual
glyphs.
Multiple flaws were discovered in FreeType's Printer Font Binary (PFB) and
TrueType Font (TTF) font-file format parsers. If a user loaded a carefully
crafted font-file with a program linked against FreeType, it could cause
the application to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1807, CVE-2008-1808)
Note: the flaw in FreeType's TrueType Font (TTF) font-file format parser,
covered by CVE-2008-1808, only affected the FreeType 1 library (libttf),
shipped in the freetype packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1. The
FreeType 2 library (libfreetype) is not affected, as it is not compiled
with TTF Byte Code Interpreter (BCI) support.
Users of freetype should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain
backported patches to resolve these issues.
Solution:
Please note that this update is available via
Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red
Hat Update Agent with the following command: up2date
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0558.html
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
Risk factor : High
CVSS Score:
7.5
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