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HistoryMar 20, 2017 - 12:00 a.m.

FreeType vulnerability

2017-03-2000:00:00
ubuntu.com
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8.4 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.009 Low

EPSS

Percentile

83.0%

Releases

  • Ubuntu 16.10
  • Ubuntu 16.04 ESM
  • Ubuntu 14.04 ESM
  • Ubuntu 12.04

Packages

  • freetype - FreeType 2 is a font engine library

Details

It was 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, resulting in a
denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

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