Security Information / 2011 / Security Information -- DSA-2350-1 freetype

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2350-1 freetype -- missing input sanitising

Date Reported:

20 Nov 2011

Affected Packages:

freetype

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 649122.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2011-3439.

More information:

It was discovered that missing input sanitising in Freetype's processing of CID-keyed fonts could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 2.3.7-2+lenny8.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.2-2.1+squeeze3.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.8-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your freetype packages.