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USN-1173-1: FreeType vulnerability

25 July 2011

FreeType could be made to 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

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.

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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

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