USN-5528-1: FreeType vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 18.04 ESM

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, or possibly execute
arbitrary code.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 22.04

• libfreetype6 - 2.11.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 20.04

• libfreetype6 - 2.10.1-2ubuntu0.2

Ubuntu 18.04

• libfreetype6 - 2.8.1-2ubuntu2.2

After a standard system update you need to restart your session to make all
the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2022-27405
• CVE-2022-27406
• CVE-2022-27404
• CVE-2022-31782

Related notices

• USN-5453-1: libfreetype6-dev, libfreetype6, freetype2-demos, freetype