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Gentoo: GLSA-200607-03 Normal: Potential Buffer Overflow in OpenSSL

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Calendar Grey July 9, 2006
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Gentoo users are urged to take note of a moderate severity warning regarding FreeType buffer overflow vulnerabilities. An upgrade is strongly advised.
Multiple remotely exploitable buffer overflows have been discovered in FreeType, resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200607-02 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: FreeType: Multiple integer overflows Date: July 09, 2006 Bugs: #124828 ID: 200607-02

Synopsis ======= Multiple remotely exploitable buffer overflows have been discovered in FreeType, resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= FreeType is a portable font engine.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-libs/freetype < 2.1.10-r2 >= 2.1.10-r2
========== Multiple integer overflows exist in a variety of files (bdf/bdflib.c, sfnt/ttcmap.c, cff/cffgload.c, base/ftmac.c).
Impact ===== A remote attacker could exploit these buffer ove...

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