Ubuntu 22.04 LTS USN-5528-1 Moderate: FreeType Security Risks

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July 20, 2022

Several security issues were fixed in FreeType.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in FreeType.

Software Description:

- freetype: FreeType 2 is a font engine library

Details:

It was 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.

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate package update Ubuntu security risks software issues FreeType

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS:
  libfreetype6                    2.11.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
  libfreetype6                    2.10.1-2ubuntu0.2

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  libfreetype6                    2.8.1-2ubuntu2.2

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