Graphite is a “smart font” system developed specifically to handle the complexities of lesser-known languages of the world.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Graphite. Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.
A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, cause a Denial of Service condition, or have other unspecified impacts.
There is no known workaround at this time.
All Graphite users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-gfx/graphite2-1.3.10"