Source: freetype
Version: 2.5.2-3
Severity: grave
Tags: upstream security patch
Justification: user security hole

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for freetype.

CVE-2017-8287[0]:
| FreeType 2 before 2017-03-26 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a
| heap-based buffer overflow related to the t1_builder_close_contour
| function in psaux/psobjs.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-2017-8287
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-8287
[1] 
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/commit/?id=3774fc08b502c3e685afca098b6e8a195aded6a0

Regards,
Salvatore

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