[El-errata] ELSA-2014-1870 Important: Oracle Linux 7 libXfont security update

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Wed Nov 19 20:58:01 PST 2014


Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2014-1870

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1870.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 7 have been uploaded to the 
Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
libXfont-1.4.7-2.el7_0.i686.rpm
libXfont-1.4.7-2.el7_0.x86_64.rpm
libXfont-devel-1.4.7-2.el7_0.i686.rpm
libXfont-devel-1.4.7-2.el7_0.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol7/SRPMS-updates/libXfont-1.4.7-2.el7_0.src.rpm



Description of changes:

[1.4.7-2]
- CVE-2014-0209: integer overflow of allocations in font metadata file 
parsing (bug 1163604, bug 1163603)
- CVE-2014-0210: unvalidated length fields when parsing xfs protocol 
replies (bug 1163604, bug 1163603)
- CVE-2014-0211: integer overflows calculating memory needs for xfs 
replies (bug 1163604, bug 1163603)





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