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

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


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

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

Package Information

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

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