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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3995-1 libxfont -- security update

Date Reported:

10 Oct 2017

Affected Packages:

libxfont

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-13720, CVE-2017-13722.

More information:

Two vulnerabilities were found in libXfont, the X11 font rasterisation library, which could result in denial of service or memory disclosure.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 1:1.5.1-1+deb8u1.

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 1:2.0.1-3+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libxfont packages.