USN-4126-1: FreeType vulnerability
USN-4126-1: FreeType vulnerability freetype vulnerability A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Summary FreeType could be made to expose sensitive information if if it opened a specially crafted font file. Software Description freetype – FreeType 2 is a font engine library Details It was discovered that FreeType incorrectly handled certain font files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to access sensitive information. Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS libfreetype6 – 2.6.1-0.1ubuntu2.4 To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades. After a standard system update you need to restart your session to make all the necessary changes. References CVE-2015-9383 Source: USN-4126-1: FreeType vulnerability