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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1587-1 pixman -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

22 Nov 2018

Affected Packages:

pixman

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-5297.

More information:

• CVE-2015-5297

  Numerical overflow in pointer arithmetic.

For Debian 8 Jessie, this problem has been fixed in version 0.32.6-3+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your pixman packages.

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