Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in mkbold-mkitalic, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
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TITLE:
mkbold-mkitalic BDF Font File Conversion Format String Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA14398
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/14398/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
System access
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
mkbold-mkitalic 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/4713/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in mkbold-mkitalic, which
potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a
user's system.
The vulnerability is cause due to a format string error in the
conversion of BDF font files. This may be exploited to execute
arbitrary code by tricking a user into converting a specially crafted
BDF font file.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.07.
http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA013651/lib/mkbold-mkitalic-0.07.tar.bz2
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.
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