USN-963-1: FreeType vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 10.04
• Ubuntu 9.10
• Ubuntu 9.04
• Ubuntu 8.04
• Ubuntu 6.06

Packages

• freetype -

Details

Robert Święcki 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 execute arbitrary code with user
privileges.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 9.10

• libfreetype6 - 2.3.9-5ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 9.04

• libfreetype6 - 2.3.9-4ubuntu0.2

Ubuntu 8.04

• libfreetype6 - 2.3.5-1ubuntu4.8.04.3

Ubuntu 6.06

• libfreetype6 - 2.1.10-1ubuntu2.7

Ubuntu 10.04

• libfreetype6 - 2.3.11-1ubuntu2.1

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

References

• CVE-2010-2498
• CVE-2010-2499
• CVE-2010-2500
• CVE-2010-2519
• CVE-2010-2520
• CVE-2010-2527