USN-2148-1: FreeType vulnerabilities

17 March 2014

FreeType 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

  • freetype - FreeType 2 is a font engine library

Details

Mateusz Jurczyk discovered that FreeType 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 FreeType to crash or possibly
execute arbitrary code with user privileges. (CVE-2014-2240, CVE-2014-2241)

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 13.10

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

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