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Ubuntu 13.10 USN-2148-1: Critical Freetype Code Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey March 17, 2014
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The Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2149-1 addresses vulnerabilities in the OpenSSL package that can potentially compromise user data through flawed secure connections.
FreeType could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted font file.

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)

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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

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March 17, 2014

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security advisory remote exploit code execution Ubuntu freetype user privileges malformed fonts

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/freetype/2.4.12-0ubuntu1.1

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