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TITLE:
FreeType BDF Font Integer Overflow Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA24768

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/24768/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS, System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
FreeType 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/10004/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in FreeType, which can be exploited
by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and potentially
compromise an application using the library.

The vulnerability is caused due to an integer overflow when parsing
BDF fonts. This can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer
overflow via a specially crafted BDF font.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 2.3.3.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Greg MacManus, iDefense Labs

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=498954

OTHER REFERENCES:
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=501

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