[Secure-testing-team] Bug#890450: freetype: CVE-2018-6942: NULL pointer dereference in the Ins_GETVARIATION() function

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: freetype
Version: 2.8.1-1
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for freetype.

CVE-2018-6942[0]:
| An issue was discovered in FreeType 2 through 2.9. A NULL pointer
| dereference in the Ins_GETVARIATION() function within ttinterp.c could
| lead to DoS via a crafted font 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-2018-6942
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-6942
[1] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=29c759284e305ec428703c9a5831d0b1fc3497ef

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore