>> FreeType Font Files Handling Multiple Integer Overflow Vulnerabilities
Title : FreeType Font Files Handling Multiple Integer Overflow Vulnerabilities VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-1868 CVE ID : CVE-2006-0747 - CVE-2006-1861 - CVE-2006-2661
Rated as : Moderate Risk
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2006-05-19
Technical Description
Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in FreeType, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code. These flaws are due to integer overflow errors in the "base/ftmac.c", "pshinter/pshglob.c", "bdf/bdflib.c", "sfnt/ttcmap.c", and "cff/cffgload.c" scripts when processing a malformed file, which could be exploited by attackers to compromise a vulnerable system via a specially crafted file.
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