Meta warns of open source of security for security for security

• Facebook warned against a Freetype defect that could be used in the execution of the remote code
• The fault “may have been exploited in the wild,” said the company
• A patch has recently been published to approach vulnerability

Facebook warns against an out -of -limited writing vulnerability in Freetype, which could allow threat actors to carry out the arbitrary code (RCE) at a distance. In a security notice published by the company, he said that vulnerability “could have been exploited in the wild”.

Freetype is an open source software library that makes the fonts. It supports various formats such as Truetype, OpenSype and Type1, and is widely used in graphic applications, game engines and operating systems to display high quality text.