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Gentoo update for freetype
Secunia Advisory: SA30819
Release Date: 2008-06-24
Popularity: 2,375 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: DoS
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Gentoo Linux 1.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2008-1806
CVE-2008-1807
CVE-2008-1808


Description:
Gentoo has issued an update for freetype. This fixes some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise an application using the library.

For more information:
SA30600

Solution:
Update to "media-libs/freetype-2.3.6" or later.

Original Advisory:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200806-10.xml

Other References:
SA30600:
http://secunia.com/advisories/30600/


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