Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3515-1 graphite2 -- security update

Date Reported:
13 Mar 2016
Affected Packages:
graphite2
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-1977, CVE-2016-2790, CVE-2016-2791, CVE-2016-2792, CVE-2016-2793, CVE-2016-2794, CVE-2016-2795, CVE-2016-2796, CVE-2016-2797, CVE-2016-2798, CVE-2016-2799, CVE-2016-2800, CVE-2016-2801, CVE-2016-2802.
More information:

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in the Graphite font rendering engine which might result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed font file is processed.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 1.3.6-1~deb7u1.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 1.3.6-1~deb8u1.

For the testing distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 1.3.6-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.3.6-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your graphite2 packages.