=========================================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2148-1
March 17, 2014
freetype vulnerabilities
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 13.10
Summary:
FreeType could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened
a specially crafted font 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. (CVE-2014-2240, CVE-2014-2241)
Update instructions:
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:
Ubuntu 13.10:
libfreetype6 2.4.12-0ubuntu1.1
After a standard system update you need to restart your session to make all
the necessary changes.
References:
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2148-1
CVE-2014-2240, CVE-2014-2241
Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/freetype/2.4.12-0ubuntu1.1