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Ubuntu 15.10 USN-2902-1 Critical Advisory on Graphite2 Issues

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Calendar Grey February 17, 2016
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Ubuntu Security Announcement USN-2903-1 draws attention to vulnerabilities within libjpeg-turbo and the corresponding implications for system protection.
graphite2 could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted font.

Summary

graphite2 could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it

opened a specially crafted font.

Software Description:

- graphite2: Font rendering engine for Complex Scripts

Details:

Yves Younan discovered that graphite2 incorrectly handled certain malformed

fonts. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially-crafted font file, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause

graphite2 to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute

arbitrary code.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical code execution Ubuntu graphite2

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 15.10:
  libgraphite2-3                  1.2.4-3ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  libgraphite2-3                  1.2.4-1ubuntu1.1

After a standard system update you need to restart applications using
graphite2, such as LibreOffice, to make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2902-1

CVE-2016-1521, CVE-2016-1522, CVE-2016-1523, CVE-2016-1526

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February 17, 2016

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security advisory denial of service critical code execution Ubuntu graphite2

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/graphite2/1.2.4-3ubuntu1.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/graphite2/1.2.4-1ubuntu1.1

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