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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="200705-22">
+ <title>FreeType: Buffer overflow</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ A vulnerability has been discovered in FreeType allowing for the execution
+ of arbitrary code.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">freetype</product>
+ <announced>2007-05-30</announced>
+ <revised count="01">2007-05-30</revised>
+ <bug>179161</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="media-libs/freetype" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">2.3.4-r2</unaffected>
+ <unaffected range="lt">2.0</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">2.3.4-r2</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ FreeType is a True Type Font rendering library.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ Victor Stinner discovered a heap-based buffer overflow in the function
+ Get_VMetrics() in src/truetype/ttgload.c when processing TTF files with
+ a negative n_points attribute.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>
+ A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted TTF
+ file, possibly resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with the
+ privileges of the user running FreeType.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ There is no known workaround at this time.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ All FreeType users should upgrade to the latest version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=media-libs/freetype-2.3.4-r2"</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-2754">CVE-2007-2754</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2007-05-22T15:08:56Z">
+ jaervosz
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2007-05-22T15:38:03Z">
+ p-y
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2007-05-27T16:46:08Z">
+ p-y
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>