Debian Security Advisory
DLA-1887-1 freetype -- LTS security update
- Date Reported:
- 15 Aug 2019
- Affected Packages:
- freetype
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-9290.
- More information:
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A buffer over-read in the t1-parser of freetype, a font engine, has been found and fixed by checking limits more sensible.
For Debian 8
Jessie
, this problem has been fixed in version 2.5.2-3+deb8u3.We recommend that you upgrade your freetype packages.
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