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USN-1316-1: t1lib vulnerability

21 December 2011

t1lib could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted font file.

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Releases

Packages

  • t1lib - Type 1 font rasterizer library - runtime

Details

Jonathan Brossard discovered that t1lib 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 t1lib 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 11.10
Ubuntu 11.04
Ubuntu 10.10
Ubuntu 10.04

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

References