libfreetype CVE FYI

Ken Brown kbrown@cornell.edu
Tue Oct 20 18:00:09 GMT 2020


On 10/20/2020 10:46 AM, Brian Inglis wrote:
> In case you haven't seen it yet, from news feed:
> 
> FreeType 2.10.4 Rushed Out As Emergency Security Release
> https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=FreeType-2.10.4-Released
> 
> links to: https://www.freetype.org/
> 
> "FreeType 2.10.4
> 2020-10-20
> This is an emergency release, fixing a severe vulnerability in embedded PNG
> bitmap handling (see here for more).
> 
> All users should update immediately."
> 
> links to: https://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/freetype2/2.10.4/

Thanks, Brian.  I'll update it.

Ken


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