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TITLE:
Sun Solaris FreeType Multiple Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA30766

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/30766/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS, System access

WHERE:
>From remote

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Sun Solaris 8
http://secunia.com/product/94/
Sun Solaris 9
http://secunia.com/product/95/
Sun Solaris 10
http://secunia.com/product/4813/

DESCRIPTION:
Sun has acknowledged some vulnerabilities in Solaris, which can
potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise an
application using the libfreetype library.

For more information:
SA30600

The vulnerabilities are reported in Solaris 8, 9, and 10 for both the
SPARC and x86 platforms.

SOLUTION:
Apply the vendor workaround to mitigate the impact (please see the
vendor's advisory for details).

Reportedly, a final solution is pending completion.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-239006-1

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA30600:
http://secunia.com/advisories/30600/

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