USN-1173-1: FreeType vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 11.04
• Ubuntu 10.10

Packages

• freetype - FreeType 2 is a font engine library

Details

It was discovered that FreeType did not correctly handle certain malformed
Type 1 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

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

Ubuntu 11.04

• libfreetype6 - 2.4.4-1ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 10.10

• libfreetype6 - 2.4.2-2ubuntu0.2

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

References

• CVE-2011-0226