USN-2510-1: FreeType vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2510-1

24th February, 2015

freetype vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 14.10


• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS


• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS


• Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Summary

FreeType could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

Software description

• freetype - FreeType 2 is a font engine library

Details

Mateusz Jurczyk 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 with user privileges.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 14.10:

libfreetype6 2.5.2-2ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:

libfreetype6 2.5.2-1ubuntu2.4

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:

libfreetype6 2.4.8-1ubuntu2.2

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:

libfreetype6 2.3.11-1ubuntu2.8

To update your system, please follow these instructions: http://bit.ly/1aJDvTw.

After a standard system update you need to restart your session to make

all the necessary changes.

References

CVE-2014-9656, CVE-2014-9657, CVE-2014-9658, CVE-2014-9659, CVE-2014-9660, CVE-2014-9661, CVE-2014-9662, CVE-2014-9663, CVE-2014-9664, CVE-2014-9665, CVE-2014-9666, CVE-2014-9667, CVE-2014-9668, CVE-2014-9669, CVE-2014-9670, CVE-2014-9671, CVE-2014-9672, CVE-2014-9673, CVE-2014-9674, CVE-2014-9675

from Ubuntu Security Notices http://bit.ly/1BnsRDP