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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2328-1 (freetype)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

4.3

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

12 years ago

Modified

Modified

2 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update to freetype announced via advisory DSA 2328-1.

Insight

Insight

It was discovered that missing input sanitising in Freetype's glyph handling could lead to memory corruption, resulting in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code. For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 2.3.7-2+lenny7. For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.2-2.1+squeeze2. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.7-1.

Solution

Solution

We recommend that you upgrade your freetype packages.

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