A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubuntu 25.10 - Ubuntu 25.04 - Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Summary: Several security issues were fixed in fontTools. Software Description: - fonttools: a library for manipulating fonts, written in Python Details: It was discovered that the subsetting module of fontTools was vulnerable to an XML External Entity (XEE) attack. An unauthenticated remote attacker could possibly use this issue to include arbitrary files from the file system or make web requests from the host system. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-45139) It was discovered that fontTools was vulnerable to path traversal attacks. If a user or automated system were tricked into extracting a specially crafted .designspace file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to write arbitrary files outside the target directory, resulting in remote code execution. This issue only affected Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Ubuntu 25.04 and ...
Read the Full AdvisoryThe problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 25.10 fonttools 4.55.3-2ubuntu0.25.10.1 python3-fonttools 4.55.3-2ubuntu0.25.10.1 Ubuntu 25.04 fonttools 4.55.3-2ubuntu0.25.04.1 python3-fonttools 4.55.3-2ubuntu0.25.04.1 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS fonttools 4.46.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 Available with Ubuntu Pro python3-fonttools 4.46.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 Available with Ubuntu Pro Ubuntu 22.04 LTS fonttools 4.29.1-2ubuntu0.1~esm1 Available with Ubuntu Pro python3-fonttools 4.29.1-2ubuntu0.1~esm1 Available with Ubuntu Pro In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7917-1
CVE-2023-45139, CVE-2025-66034
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fonttools/4.55.3-2ubuntu0.25.10.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fonttools/4.55.3-2ubuntu0.25.04.1
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