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This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.
FreeType is a free, high-quality, portable font engine.
An integer overflow flaw was found in the way the FreeType font engine processed BDF font files. If a user loaded a carefully crafted font file with a program linked against FreeType, it could cause the application to crash or execute arbitrary code. While it is uncommon for a user to explicitly load a font file, there are several application file formats which contain embedded fonts that are parsed by FreeType. (CVE-2007-1351)
This flaw did not affect the version of FreeType shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1.
Users of FreeType should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue.
Red Hat would like to thank iDefense for reporting this issue.
Max CVSS | 0 |
Min CVSS | 0 |
Total Count | 2 |
| ID | CVSS | Summary | Last (major) update | Published |
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