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Ubuntu: USN-2627-1 Moderate: t1utils Denial of Service Issue

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Calendar Grey June 3, 2015
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
=========================================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-
t1utils could be made to crash or run programs as your login if itopened a specially crafted file.

Summary

t1utils could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it

opened a specially crafted file.

Software Description:

- t1utils: Collection of simple Type 1 font manipulation programs

Details:

Jakub Wilk discovered that t1utils incorrectly handled certain malformed fonts.

If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted

font, a remote attacker could crash the application, leading to a denial of

service, or possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges.

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Topics Covered

security advisory update arbitrary code execution Ubuntu Denial of Service crash t1utils

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 14.10:
  t1utils                         1.37-2.1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  t1utils                         1.37-2ubuntu1.1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2627-1

CVE-2015-3905

June 03, 2015

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory update arbitrary code execution Ubuntu Denial of Service crash t1utils

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/t1utils/1.37-2.1ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/t1utils/1.37-2ubuntu1.1

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