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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS: USN-4593-1 Critical: FreeType Crash Risk

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Calendar Grey October 20, 2020
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
A vulnerability in FreeType could potentially lead to system crashes or arbitrary code execution on Ubuntu platforms. It's essential to apply the latest updates for safeguarding your system.
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:

Sergei Glazunov 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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory code execution Ubuntu freetype crash malware exposure

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
  libfreetype6                    2.10.1-2ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  libfreetype6                    2.8.1-2ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  libfreetype6                    2.6.1-0.1ubuntu2.5

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4593-1

CVE-2020-15999

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October 20, 2020

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory code execution Ubuntu freetype crash malware exposure

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/freetype/2.10.1-2ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/freetype/2.8.1-2ubuntu2.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/freetype/2.6.1-0.1ubuntu2.5

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