Sean Larsson discovered that two code paths inside the X Font Server handle integer values insecurely, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code. For the oldstable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge5 of xfree86. Packages for m68k are not yet available. They will be provided later. For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.1-7. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.5-1. We recommend that you upgrade your xfs packages.
Sean Larsson discovered that two code paths inside the X Font Server handle integer values insecurely, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
For the oldstable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge5 of xfree86. Packages for m68k are not yet available. They will be provided later.
For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.1-7.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.5-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your xfs packages.
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.