[Secure-testing-team] Bug#860313: freetype: CVE-2017-7864

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: freetype
Version: 2.6.3-3
Severity: important
Tags: patch upstream security

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for freetype.

CVE-2017-7864[0]:
| FreeType 2 before 2017-02-02 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a
| heap-based buffer overflow related to the tt_size_reset function in
| truetype/ttobjs.c.

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-2017-7864
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7864
[1] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=e6699596af5c5d6f0ae0ea06e19df87dce088df8
[2] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=509

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore