A vulnerability has been identified in XnView, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service or compromise an affected system. This issue is caused by a buffer overflow error when processing slideshow (*.sld) files with an overly long "FontName" parameter, which could be exploited by attackers to crash a vulnerable application or execute arbitrary commands by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted file.
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