Several problems have been discovered in the FreeType 2 font engine.
The Common vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the
following problems:
- CVE-2006-0747
Several integer underflows have been discovered which could allow
remote attackers to cause a denial of service.
- CVE-2006-1861
Chris Evans discovered several integer overflows that lead to a
denial of service or could possibly even lead to the execution of
arbitrary code.
- CVE-2006-2493
Several more integer overflows have been discovered which could
possibly lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
- CVE-2006-2661
A null pointer dereference could cause a denial of service.
For the old stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in
version 2.0.9-1woody1.
For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 2.1.7-2.5.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems will be fixed soon
We recommend that you upgrade your libfreetype packages.