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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.703461
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-3461-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'freetype' package(s) announced via the DSA-3461-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'freetype' package(s) announced via the DSA-3461-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
Mateusz Jurczyk discovered multiple vulnerabilities in Freetype. Opening malformed fonts may result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.9-1.1+deb7u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your freetype packages.

Affected Software/OS:
'freetype' package(s) on Debian 7.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
7.5

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2014-9674
BugTraq ID: 72986
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72986
Debian Security Information: DSA-3461 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3461
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150162.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-February/150148.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-05
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:055
http://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=153
RedHat Security Advisories: RHSA-2015:0696
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0696.html
SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2015:0627 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00091.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2510-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2739-1
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