USN-2739-1: FreeType vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 15.04
• Ubuntu 14.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 12.04

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

• libfreetype6 - 2.5.2-2ubuntu3.1

Ubuntu 14.04

• libfreetype6 - 2.5.2-1ubuntu2.5

Ubuntu 12.04

• libfreetype6 - 2.4.8-1ubuntu2.3

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

References

• CVE-2014-9745
• https://launchpad.net/bugs/1449225