[Secure-testing-team] Bug#856971: freetype: CVE-2016-10244

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: freetype
Version: 2.5.2-3
Severity: important
Tags: security patch upstream

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for freetype.

CVE-2016-10244[0]:
| The parse_charstrings function in type1/t1load.c in FreeType 2 before
| 2.7 does not ensure that a font contains a glyph name, which allows
| remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer
| over-read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted
| file.

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-2016-10244
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-10244
[1] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=a660e3de422731b94d4a134d27555430cbb6fb39 (VER-2-7)
[2] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=36

Regards,
Salvatore