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USN-1686-1: FreeType vulnerabilities

14 January 2013

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

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Releases

Packages

  • freetype - FreeType 2 is a font engine library

Details

Mateusz Jurczyk discovered that FreeType did not correctly handle certain
malformed BDF 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.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 8.04
Ubuntu 12.10
Ubuntu 12.04
Ubuntu 11.10
Ubuntu 10.04

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