USN-324-1: freetype vulnerability
28 July 2006
freetype vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
- Ubuntu 5.10
- Ubuntu 5.04
Software Description
Details
An integer overflow has been discovered in the FreeType library. By tricking a user into installing and/or opening a specially crafted font file, these could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of that user.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
- Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
- libfreetype6 - 2.1.10-1ubuntu2.2
- Ubuntu 5.10
- libfreetype6 - 2.1.7-2.4ubuntu1.2
- Ubuntu 5.04
- libfreetype6 - 2.1.7-2.3ubuntu0.2
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
After a standard system upgrade you need to restart your session to effect the necessary changes.