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Debian: DSA-2253-1 Urgent: Buffer Overflow in FontForge Released

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Calendar Grey June 3, 2011
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Vulnerability in FontForge discovered, prompting potential remote exploitation risks; Debian DSA-2253-2 issues crucial security patches.
Ulrik Persson reported a stack-based buffer overflow flaw in FontForge, a font editor
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Summary

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.0.20080429-1+lenny2.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), testing distribution (wheezy),
and unstable distribution (sid) are not affected by this problem.

We recommend that you upgrade your fontforge packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: http://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: fontforge
CVE ID: CVE-2010-4259

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