Ubuntu Security Notice USN-963-1

20th July, 2010

freetype vulnerabilities

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

• Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 9.10
• Ubuntu 9.04
• Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 6.06 LTS

Software description

• freetype

Details

Robert Święcki 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 execute arbitrary code with user
privileges.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:

libfreetype6 2.3.11-1ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 9.10:

libfreetype6 2.3.9-5ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 9.04:

libfreetype6 2.3.9-4ubuntu0.2

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS:

libfreetype6 2.3.5-1ubuntu4.8.04.3

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS:

libfreetype6 2.1.10-1ubuntu2.7

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-2010-2498, CVE-2010-2499, CVE-2010-2500, CVE-2010-2519, CVE-2010-2520, CVE-2010-2527