USN-3572-1: FreeType vulnerability

Publication date

14 February 2018

Overview

FreeType could be made to crash if it opened a specially crafted file.

Releases

17.10

Packages

It was discovered that FreeType incorrectly handled certain files.
An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service.

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
17.10 artful	libfreetype6 – 2.8-0.2ubuntu2.1

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