Source: freetype Version: 2.5.2-3 Severity: important Tags: security patch upstream
Hi, the following vulnerability was published for freetype. CVE-2016-10244[0]: | The parse_charstrings function in type1/t1load.c in FreeType 2 before | 2.7 does not ensure that a font contains a glyph name, which allows | remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer | over-read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted | file. If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry. For further information see: [0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-10244 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-10244 [1] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=a660e3de422731b94d4a134d27555430cbb6fb39 (VER-2-7) [2] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=36 Regards, Salvatore