Gentoo: GLSA-200705-22 FreeType Buffer Overflow Risk Advisory
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May 30, 2007
A vulnerability has been discovered in FreeType allowing for the execution of arbitrary code.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200705-22
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: FreeType: Buffer overflow
Date: May 30, 2007
Bugs: #179161
ID: 200705-22
Synopsis
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A vulnerability has been discovered in FreeType allowing for the
execution of arbitrary code.
Background
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FreeType is a True Type Font rendering library.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 media-libs/freetype < 2.3.4-r2 >= 2.3.4-r2
< 2.0
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Victor Stinner discovered a heap-based buffer overflow in the function
Get_VMetrics() in src/truetype/ttgload.c when processing TTF files with
a ...
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