Debian: DSA-2070-1 Critical Freetype Buffer Overflow Issue

Robert Swiecki discovered several vulnerabilities in the FreeType font
library, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code if a
malformed font file is processed.

Also, several buffer overflows were found in the included demo programs.


For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in
version 2.3.7-2+lenny2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 2.4.0-1.

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 automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 alias lenny

Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, ...