Users of freetype2 please be advised of a code execution vulnerability that has been identified.
To view this vulnerability, possible remedies, and others please check out the Security Advisories at Critical Watch (http://criticalwatch.com/support/security-advisories.aspx)
Amplify’d from www.criticalwatch.com
MDVSA-2010:201: [MDVSA-2010:201] freetype2 code execution
Problem Description:
A vulnerability was discovered and corrected in freetype2:
Marc Schoenefeld found an input stream position error in the way
FreeType font rendering engine processed input file streams. If
a user loaded a specially-crafted font file with an application
linked against FreeType and relevant font glyphs were subsequently
rendered with the X FreeType library (libXft), it could cause the
application to crash or, possibly execute arbitrary code (integer
overflow leading to heap-based buffer overflow in the libXft library)
with the privileges of the user running the application. Different
vulnerability than CVE-2010-1797 (CVE-2010-3311).
Read more at www.criticalwatch.com
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