Debian 3.1 DSA-1334 Critical: Freetype Integer Overflow Threat
debian
July 18, 2007
A problem was discovered with freetype, a FreeType2 font engine, which could allow the execution of arbitary code via an integer overflow in specially crafted TTF files.
Summary
For the old stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.1.7-8.
We recommend that you upgrade your freetype package.
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 GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge
Source archives:
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amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))
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