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Debian: DSA-3516-1 Important: FontForge Vulnerability Mitigation

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Calendar Grey March 13, 2016
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Multiple security vulnerabilities in Graphite font processing may cause denial of service (DoS) attacks or unauthorized code execution. Update graphite2 packages now
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 i...

Summary

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 1.3.6-1~deb7u1.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.3.6-1~deb8u1.

For the testing distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed
in version 1.3.6-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.3.6-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your graphite2 packages.

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



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Package: graphite2
CVE ID: CVE-2016-1977 CVE-2016-2790 CVE-2016-2791 CVE-2016-2792

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