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Ubuntu 14.04 ESM: Important FreeType Vulnerability USN-4593-2 Alert

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Calendar Grey October 23, 2020
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Ubuntu 14.04 ESM security advisory related to FreeType vulnerability for potential crash or remote code execution. Update advised for mitigation.
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:

USN-4593-1 fixed a vulnerability in FreeType. This update provides

the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM.

Original advisory 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

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Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 14.04 ESM:
  libfreetype6                    2.5.2-1ubuntu2.8+esm2

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4593-2

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

CVE-2020-15999

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October 22, 2020

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