Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in FreeType, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or potentially compromise an application using the library.
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TITLE:
FreeType Bitmap Font Handling Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA25884
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/25884/
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) or potentially
compromise an application using the library.
The vulnerability is caused due to an error when handling bitmap
fonts in src/base/ftbimap.c and may be exploited when processing a
specially crafted bitmap font.
The vulnerability reportedly affects version 2.3.3.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.3.4.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=3157&release_id=499970
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