USN-4126-2: FreeType vulnerabilities
USN-4126-2: FreeType vulnerabilities freetype vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 14.04 ESM Ubuntu 12.04 ESM Summary FreeType could be made to expose sensitive information if it opened a specially crafted font file. Software Description freetype – FreeType 2 is a font engine library Details USN-4126-1 fixed a vulnerability in FreeType. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM and Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. It was discovered that FreeType incorrectly handled certain font files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to access sensitive information. (CVE-2015-9381, CVE-2015-9382) Original advisory details: It was discovered that FreeType incorrectly handled certain font files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to access sensitive information. (CVE-2015-9383) Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 14.04 ESM libfreetype6 – [ more… ]