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09-05-2009, 02:28 PM
Tavis Ormandy discovered that the embedded GD library copy in libwmf, a library to parse windows metafiles (WMF), makes use of a pointer after it was already freed. <excerpt>An attacker using a crafted WMF file can cause a denial of service or possibly the execute arbitrary code via applications using this library<excerpt>.

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