Control: severity -1 normal

On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 11:18:18PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> package: src:freetype
> severity: serious
> version: 2.5.2-2

> An out of bounds write issue was found in the Adobe's CFF
> implementation in freetype [0].

> CFF was introduced in freetype 2.5, so wheezy and squeeze aren't affected.

> [0] http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?43661

As this is described as a bug in the Adobe CFF implementation, and we
currently disable the use of this code at build time (bug #730742), I
believe Debian is not vulnerable.

The bug should still be fixed as we will eventually want to re-enable this
code, but it doesn't look like a serious bug.

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