Description: | Description: The remote host is missing an update to freetype2 announced via advisory MDVSA-2010:201.
A vulnerability was discovered and corrected in freetype2:
Marc Schoenefeld found an input stream position error in the way FreeType font rendering engine processed input file streams. If a user loaded a specially-crafted font file with an application linked against FreeType and relevant font glyphs were subsequently rendered with the X FreeType library (libXft), it could cause the application to crash or, possibly execute arbitrary code (integer overflow leading to heap-based buffer overflow in the libXft library) with the privileges of the user running the application. Different vulnerability than CVE-2010-1797 (CVE-2010-3311).
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The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.
Affected: 2009.0, 2009.1, 2010.0, 2010.1, Corporate 4.0, Enterprise Server 5.0
Solution: To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.
http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=MDVSA-2010:201
Risk factor : Critical
CVSS Score: 9.3
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