ALAS-2012-066

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2012-1126   CVE-2012-1134  

Multiple flaws were found in the way FreeType handled fonts in various formats. If a specially-crafted font file was loaded by an application linked against FreeType, it could cause the application to crash.

ALAS-2012-066


Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2012-66
Advisory Release Date: 2012-04-30 14:46 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-14 15:48 Pacific
Severity: Important

Issue Overview:

Multiple flaws were found in the way FreeType handled fonts in various formats. If a specially-crafted font file was loaded by an application linked against FreeType, it could cause the application to crash.


Affected Packages:

freetype


Issue Correction:
Run yum update freetype to update your system.

New Packages:
i686:
    freetype-2.3.11-6.12.amzn1.i686
    freetype-demos-2.3.11-6.12.amzn1.i686
    freetype-devel-2.3.11-6.12.amzn1.i686
    freetype-debuginfo-2.3.11-6.12.amzn1.i686

src:
    freetype-2.3.11-6.12.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    freetype-demos-2.3.11-6.12.amzn1.x86_64
    freetype-debuginfo-2.3.11-6.12.amzn1.x86_64
    freetype-devel-2.3.11-6.12.amzn1.x86_64
    freetype-2.3.11-6.12.amzn1.x86_64