USN-5657-1: Graphite2 vulnerability

Publication date

5 October 2022

Overview

Graphite2 could be made to crash if it opened a specially crafted file.

Releases


Packages

  • graphite2 - Font rendering engine for Complex Scripts

Details

It was discovered that Graphite2 mishandled specially crafted files. An
attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or
other unspecified impact.

It was discovered that Graphite2 mishandled specially crafted files. An
attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or
other unspecified impact.

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will 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
16.04 xenial libgraphite2-3 –  1.3.10-0ubuntu0.16.04.1+esm1  

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