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Bug 235412

Summary: texlive-2007-r3 depends on freetype-1*, no secure freetype-1* available
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Florian Friesdorf <flo>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: critical    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description Florian Friesdorf 2008-08-21 23:07:38 UTC
texlive-2007-r3 depends on freetype-1, but there is a glsa for the most recent freetype-1*.

$ paludis --query -D texlive |grep freetype
            =media-libs/freetype-1*

$ paludis -r
* media-libs/freetype-1.4_pre20080316-r1::installed NOT OK
    This package has following security issues:
    GLSA-200806-10: "FreeType: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code"
        -> /var/paludis/repositories/gentoo/metadata/glsa/glsa-200806-10.xml

Raised severity as it seems that it is not possible to use texlive without the insecure freetype.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-08-22 18:33:32 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 225851 ***