Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in FreeType, which can be exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise an application using the library.
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TITLE:
FreeType BDF Glyph Processing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA51519
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RELEASE DATE:
2012-12-26
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DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in FreeType, which can be exploited
by malicious people to potentially compromise an application using the
library.
The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the
"_bdf_parse_glyphs()" function (src/bdf/bdflib.c) when processing
glyph information within Bitmap Distribution Format (BDF) files and
can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow.
Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.
The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 2.4.11.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.4.11.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Mateusz Jurczyk (j00ru), Google Security Team via GNU bug report.
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