USN-1013-1: FreeType vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 10.10
• Ubuntu 10.04
• Ubuntu 9.10
• Ubuntu 8.04
• Ubuntu 6.06

Packages

• freetype -

Details

Marc Schoenefeld 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. This issue only affected
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, 8.04 LTS, 9.10 and 10.04 LTS. (CVE-2010-3311)

Chris Evans discovered that FreeType did not correctly handle certain
malformed TrueType font files. If a user were tricked into using a
specially crafted TrueType file, a remote attacker could cause FreeType to
crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges. This issue
only affected Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, 9.10, 10.04 LTS and 10.10. (CVE-2010-3814)

It was discovered that FreeType did not correctly handle certain malformed
TrueType font files. If a user were tricked into using a specially crafted
TrueType file, a remote attacker could cause FreeType to crash or possibly
execute arbitrary code with user privileges. (CVE-2010-3855)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 9.10

• libfreetype6 - 2.3.9-5ubuntu0.4

Ubuntu 8.04

• libfreetype6 - 2.3.5-1ubuntu4.8.04.6

Ubuntu 6.06

• libfreetype6 - 2.1.10-1ubuntu2.10

Ubuntu 10.10

• libfreetype6 - 2.4.2-2ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 10.04

• libfreetype6 - 2.3.11-1ubuntu2.4

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

References

• CVE-2010-3311
• CVE-2010-3814
• CVE-2010-3855