Description: Gentoo has acknowledged some vulnerabilities in ptex, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to manipulate certain data and malicious people to compromise a user's system.
The vulnerabilities are caused due to the use of vulnerable code from the GD library, Xpdf, and T1Lib.
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