A vulnerability has been identified in FreeType, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code. This issue is caused by an integer overflow error in the "TT_Load_Simple_Glyph()" [ttgload.c] function when processing TTF images with a negative number of points in contours, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an application linked against a vulnerable library or compromise a vulneable system via a specially crafted TTF image.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Victor Stinner (INL).
ChangeLog
2007-05-21 : Initial release
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