[matplotlib-devel] code execution via AFM

2015-07-21 Thread Benjamin Root
Pretty sure this doesn't impact us, but just thought I'd throw this out there: https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2015-2426 Looks like Microsoft's AFM library didn't properly sanitize malicious OpenType font files and suffered from a buffer underflow, allowing for arbitrary code

[matplotlib-devel] Running test suite with out image comparisons

2015-07-21 Thread Brian Granger
Hi folks, Is it possible to run the matplotlib test suite without the image comparisons? Cheers, Brian -- Brian E. Granger Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo @ellisonbg on Twitter and GitHub bgran...@calpoly.edu and elliso...@gmail.com -

[matplotlib-devel] Dev build on matplotlib with conda

2015-07-21 Thread Brian Granger
Hi all, I am trying to get a dev build of matplotlib working with the anaconda python. Any advice on getting matplotlib to detect and use any of the libpng/freetypes: * Those installed with anaconda python. * Those from homebrew * Those that ship with OS X Cheers, Brian -- Brian E. Granger C