RHSA-2010:0577: Important: freetype security update

FreeType is a free, high-quality, portable font engine that can open andmanage font files. It also loads, hints, and renders individual glyphsefficiently. These packages provide both the FreeType 1 and FreeType 2 fontengines.An integer overflow flaw was found in the way the FreeType font engineprocessed font files. If a user loaded a carefully-crafted font file withan application linked against FreeType, it could cause the application tocrash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the userrunning the application. (CVE-2010-2500)Several buffer overflow flaws were found in the FreeType demo applications.If a user loaded a carefully-crafted font file with a demo application, itcould cause the application to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary codewith the privileges of the user running the application. (CVE-2010-2527,CVE-2010-2541)Red Hat would like to thank Robert Swiecki of the Google Security Team forthe discovery of the CVE-2010-2500 and CVE-2010-2527 issues.Note: All of the issues in this erratum only affect the FreeType 2 fontengine.Users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which containbackported patches to correct these issues. The X server must be restarted(log out, then log back in) for this update to take effect.