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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2148-1
March 17, 2014

freetype vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 13.10

Summary:

FreeType could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened
a specially crafted font file.

Software Description:

• freetype: FreeType 2 is a font engine library

Details:

Mateusz Jurczyk 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. (CVE-2014-2240, CVE-2014-2241)

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 13.10:
libfreetype6 2.4.12-0ubuntu1.1

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

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2148-1
CVE-2014-2240, CVE-2014-2241

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/freetype/2.4.12-0ubuntu1.1

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