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USN-5366-2: FriBidi vulnerabilities USN-5366-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in FriBidi. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Original advisory details: It was discovered that FriBidi incorrectly handled processing of input strings resulting in memory corruption. An attacker could use this issue to cause FriBidi to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or potentially execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-25308) It was discovered that FriBidi incorrectly validated input data to its CapRTL unicode encoder, resulting in memory corruption. An attacker could use this issue to cause FriBidi to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or potentially execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-25309) It was discovered that FriBidi incorrectly handled empty input when removing marks from unicode strings, resulting in a crash. An attacker could use this to cause FriBidi to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or potentially execute arbitrary [ more… ]

USN-5389-1: Libcroco vulnerabilities It was discovered that Libcroco was incorrectly accessing data structures when reading bytes from memory, which could cause a heap buffer overflow. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2017-7960) It was discovered that Libcroco was incorrectly handling invalid UTF-8 values when processing CSS files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2017-8834, CVE-2017-8871) It was discovered that Libcroco was incorrectly implementing recursion in one of its parsing functions, which could cause an infinite recursion loop and a stack overflow due to stack consumption. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2020-12825) Source: USN-5389-1: Libcroco vulnerabilities