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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2012-5668: FreeType: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2012-5668: FreeType: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/24/2013
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

FreeType before 2.4.11 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via vectors related to BDF fonts and the improper handling of an "allocation error" in the bdf_free_font function.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-media-libs-freetype

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