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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3479-1 graphite2 -- security update

Date Reported:

15 Feb 2016

Affected Packages:

graphite2

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-1521, CVE-2016-1522, CVE-2016-1523, CVE-2016-1526.

More information:

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in the Graphite font rendering engine which might result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed font file is processed.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 1.3.5-1~deb7u1.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 1.3.5-1~deb8u1.

For the testing distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 1.3.5-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.3.5-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your graphite2 packages.