Description: Victor Stinner has reported a vulnerability in FreeType, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or potentially compromise an application using the library.
The vulnerability is caused due to an error when parsing malformed TTF fonts in src/truetype/ttgload.c and may be exploited when processing a specially crafted TTF font.
The vulnerability is reported in version 2.3.4. Other versions may also be affected.
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