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VMware Fusion: Update to Freetype (VMSA-2008-0014) (CVE-2008-1806)

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VMware Fusion: Update to Freetype (VMSA-2008-0014) (CVE-2008-1806)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
06/16/2008
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/18/2014
Modified
02/13/2015

Description

Integer overflow in FreeType2 before 2.3.6 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted set of 16-bit length values within the Private dictionary table in a Printer Font Binary (PFB) file, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Solution(s)

  • vmware-fusion-upgrade-2_0_0

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