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Gentoo: GLSA-200705-22 FreeType Buffer Overflow Risk Advisory

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Calendar Grey May 30, 2007
Scroller Gentoo
FreeType contains a critical security flaw linked to buffer overflow; ensure you update to prevent possible execution of unintended commands.
A vulnerability has been discovered in FreeType allowing for the execution of arbitrary code.

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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 ======= A vulnerability has been discovered in FreeType allowing for the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= FreeType is a True Type Font rendering library.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-libs/freetype < 2.3.4-r2 >= 2.3.4-r2 < 2.0
========== 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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