Secunia reports:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in FreeType, which can be exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise an application using the library.
An integer overflow error within the "cff_charset_compute_cids()" function in cff/cffload.c can be exploited to potentially cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted font.
Multiple integer overflow errors within validation functions in sfnt/ttcmap.c can be exploited to bypass length validations and potentially cause buffer overflows via specially crafted fonts.
An integer overflow error within the "ft_smooth_render_generic()" function in smooth/ftsmooth.c can be exploited to potentially cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted font.
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