USN-2739-1: FreeType vulnerabilities
10 September 2015
Several security issues were fixed in FreeType.
Releases
Packages
- freetype - FreeType 2 is a font engine library
Details
It was 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 hang, resulting in
a denial of service, or possibly expose uninitialized memory.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 15.04
Ubuntu 14.04
Ubuntu 12.04
After a standard system update you need to restart your session to make
all the necessary changes.