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A mingw-freetype security update has been released for Fedora 36.



SECURITY: Fedora 36 Update: mingw-freetype-2.12.1-2.fc36


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2023-78fa2b72d7
2023-04-22 01:11:17.771521
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Name : mingw-freetype
Product : Fedora 36
Version : 2.12.1
Release : 2.fc36
URL :   http://www.freetype.org
Summary : Free and portable font rendering engine
Description :
MinGW Windows Freetype library.

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Update Information:

Backport fix for CVE-2023-2004.
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Apr 13 2023 Sandro Mani - 2.12.1-2
- Backport patch for CVE-2023-2004
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2186437 - CVE-2023-2004 mingw-freetype: freetype: integer overflowin in tt_hvadvance_adjust() in src/truetype/ttgxvar.c [fedora-all]
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2186437
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-78fa2b72d7' 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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