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Debian: DSA-1454-1 Critical: Freetype Integer Overflow Threat

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Calendar Grey January 7, 2008
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Buffer overflow detected within libfreetype might result in possible execution of arbitrary code. It's essential to update freetype immediately to safeguard your system.
Greg MacManus discovered an integer overflow in the font handling of libfreetype, a FreeType 2 font engine, which might lead to denial of service or possibly the execution of arb...

Summary


For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.2.1-5+etch2.

For the old stable distribution (sarge) this problem will be fixed
soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your freetype packages.

Upgrade instructions
- --------------------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 4.0 (stable)
- -------------------Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

Source archives:

Size/MD5 checksum: 798 53491a8ea88f0a4da770cfd1755f0d85
Size/MD5 checksum: 1451392 a584e84d617c6e7919b4aef9b5106cf4
Size/MD5 ...

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