USN-3282-2: FreeType vulnerabilities
17 May 2017
FreeType could be made to crash or run programs if it opened a specially crafted font file.
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, resulting in a
denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 12.04
After a standard system update you need to restart your session to make
all the necessary changes.
References
Related notices
- USN-3282-1: libfreetype6-dev, freetype, libfreetype6, libfreetype6-udeb, freetype2-demos