1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-1686-1

USN-1686-1: FreeType vulnerabilities

Publication date

14 January 2013

Overview

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

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.

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.

Update instructions

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

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

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

Ubuntu Release Package Version
8.04 hardy libfreetype6 –  2.3.5-1ubuntu4.8.04.10
12.10 quantal libfreetype6 –  2.4.10-0ubuntu1.1
12.04 precise libfreetype6 –  2.4.8-1ubuntu2.1
11.10 oneiric libfreetype6 –  2.4.4-2ubuntu1.3
10.04 lucid libfreetype6 –  2.3.11-1ubuntu2.7

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