Vulnerability in Font Processing Library Affects Linux, OpenOffice, Firefox

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Four vulnerabilities in the Graphite (or libgraphite) font processing library allow attackers to compromise machines by supplying them with malicious fonts.

In its description, Graphite‘s authors describe the library as a tool capable of creating “smart fonts” that can display dynamic glyphs for showing complex writing systems.Many applications use Graphite, and among them are Firefox, Pale Moon, Thunderbird, OpenOffice, LibreOffice, and WorldPad, …

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