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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2155-1 freetype -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:

30 Jan 2011

Affected Packages:

freetype

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2010-3814, CVE-2010-3855.

More information:

Two buffer overflows were found in the Freetype font library, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 2.3.7-2+lenny5.

For the testing distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.2-2.1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.2-2.1.

We recommend that you upgrade your freetype packages.