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Gentoo: GLSA-200710-12 Normal: T1Lib Buffer Overflow Threat

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Calendar Grey October 13, 2007
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T1Lib is vulnerable to a buffer overflow allowing for the user-assisted execution of arbitrary code.

Summary

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200710-12
                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

  Severity: Normal
     Title: T1Lib: Buffer overflow
      Date: October 12, 2007
      Bugs: #193437
        ID: 200710-12


Synopsis
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T1Lib is vulnerable to a buffer overflow allowing for the user-assisted
execution of arbitrary code.

Background
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T1Lib is a library for rasterizing bitmaps from Adobe Type 1 fonts.

Affected packages
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     Package           /  Vulnerable  /                     Unaffected
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  1  media-libs/t1lib     < 5.0.2-r1                       >= 5.0.2-r1

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Hamid Ebadi discovered a boundary error in the
intT1_EnvGetCompletePath() function which can lead to a buffer overflow
when processing an over...
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