USN-5453-1: FreeType vulnerability

Publication date

30 May 2022

Overview

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

Releases

16.04 LTS

Packages

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

In general, a standard system update will 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 – 2.6.1-0.1ubuntu2.5+esm1

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