Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: 2510-2 Important: OpenSSL Security Flaw

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February 24, 2015

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

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.

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Ubuntu freetype program crash

Update Instructions

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

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

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