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HistoryOct 22, 2020 - 12:00 a.m.

FreeType vulnerability

2020-10-2200:00:00
ubuntu.com
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7.9 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.026 Low

EPSS

Percentile

90.2%

Releases

  • Ubuntu 14.04 ESM

Packages

  • freetype - FreeType 2 is a font engine library

Details

USN-4593-1 fixed a vulnerability in FreeType. This update provides
the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM.

Original advisory details:

Sergei Glazunov 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 or possibly
execute arbitrary code with user privileges.