Debian 5.0: DSA-1784-1 Critical: Freetype Integer Overflow Issue

Tavis Ormandy discovered several integer overflows in FreeType, a library
to process and access font files, resulting in heap- or stack-based
buffer overflows leading to application crashes or the execution
of arbitrary code via a crafted font file.


For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.2.1-5+etch4.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.3.7-2+lenny1.

For the testing distribution (squeeze), this problem will be fixed soon.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.3.9-4.1.


We recommend that you upgrade your freetype packages.

Upgrade instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an auto...