USN-4126-1: FreeType vulnerability

Publication date

9 September 2019

Overview

FreeType could be made to expose sensitive information if it opened a specially crafted font file.

Releases

16.04 LTS

Packages

It was discovered that FreeType incorrectly handled certain font files.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to access sensitive information.

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

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

Ubuntu Release	Package Version
16.04 xenial	libfreetype6 – 2.6.1-0.1ubuntu2.4

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