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A mingw security update has been released for Fedora 36.



SECURITY: Fedora 36 Update: mingw-freetype-2.12.1-1.fc36


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2022-7ece4f6d74
2022-05-11 01:16:35.951570
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Name : mingw-freetype
Product : Fedora 36
Version : 2.12.1
Release : 1.fc36
URL :   http://www.freetype.org
Summary : Free and portable font rendering engine
Description :
MinGW Windows Freetype library.

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Update Information:

Update to 2.12.1. ---- Backport fixes for CVE-2022-27404, CVE-2022-27405,
CVE-2022-27406
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ChangeLog:

* Tue May 3 2022 Sandro Mani - 2.12.1-1
- Update to 2.12.1
* Tue Apr 26 2022 Sandro Mani - 2.12.0-1
- Update to 2.12.0
* Fri Mar 25 2022 Sandro Mani - 2.11.1-3
- Rebuild with mingw-gcc-12
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2079182 - CVE-2022-27406 mingw-freetype: Freetype: Segmentation violation [fedora-all]
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2079182
[ 2 ] Bug #2079204 - CVE-2022-27404 mingw-freetype: FreeType: Buffer Overflow [fedora-all]
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2079204
[ 3 ] Bug #2079256 - CVE-2022-27405 mingw-freetype: FreeType: Segementation Fault [fedora-all]
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2079256
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2022-7ece4f6d74' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
  http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
  https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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