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Gentoo: GLSA-202303-13 Critical: OpenSSL SSL Certificate Verification Flaw

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Calendar Grey September 13, 2006
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Critical alert issued for several integer overflow vulnerabilities in Gentoo's LibXfont, potentially leading to escalated privilege exploitation.
Some buffer overflows were discovered in the CID font parser, potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with elevated privileges

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200609-07 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: LibXfont, monolithic X.org: Multiple integer overflows Date: September 13, 2006 Bugs: #145513 ID: 200609-07

Synopsis ======= Some buffer overflows were discovered in the CID font parser, potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with elevated privileges.
Background ========= libXfont is the X.Org Xfont library, some parts are based on the FreeType code base.
Affected packages ================ -----------------------------------------------------------------...

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