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[USN-2510-1] FreeType vulnerabilities

2015-03-0800:00:00
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2510-1
February 24, 2015

freetype vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

  • Ubuntu 14.10
  • Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
  • Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
  • Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Summary:

FreeType could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened
a specially crafted file.

Software Description:

  • freetype: FreeType 2 is a font engine library

Details:

Mateusz Jurczyk discovered that FreeType did not correctly handle certain
malformed font files. If a user were tricked into using a specially crafted
font file, a remote attacker could cause FreeType to crash or possibly
execute arbitrary code with user privileges.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 14.10:
libfreetype6 2.5.2-2ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
libfreetype6 2.5.2-1ubuntu2.4

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
libfreetype6 2.4.8-1ubuntu2.2

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
libfreetype6 2.3.11-1ubuntu2.8

After a standard system update you need to restart your session to make
all the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2510-1
CVE-2014-9656, CVE-2014-9657, CVE-2014-9658, CVE-2014-9659,
CVE-2014-9660, CVE-2014-9661, CVE-2014-9662, CVE-2014-9663,
CVE-2014-9664, CVE-2014-9665, CVE-2014-9666, CVE-2014-9667,
CVE-2014-9668, CVE-2014-9669, CVE-2014-9670, CVE-2014-9671,
CVE-2014-9672, CVE-2014-9673, CVE-2014-9674, CVE-2014-9675

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/freetype/2.5.2-2ubuntu1.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/freetype/2.5.2-1ubuntu2.4
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/freetype/2.4.8-1ubuntu2.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/freetype/2.3.11-1ubuntu2.8

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