A vulnerability has been identified in FreeType, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands. This issue is caused by an integer overflow error in the "_bdf_set_default_spacing()" [bdf/bdflib.c] function when processing malformed BDF fonts, which could be exploited by attackers to compromise an affected system via a specially crafted file.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Greg MacManus (iDefense Labs)
ChangeLog
2007-04-05 : Initial release
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