USN-5528-1: FreeType vulnerabilities
20 July 2022
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 possibly execute
arbitrary code.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 22.04
Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 18.04
After a standard system update you need to restart your session to make all
the necessary changes.
References
Related notices
- USN-5453-1: libfreetype6, freetype, libfreetype6-dev, freetype2-demos