USN-4126-1: FreeType vulnerability

9 September 2019

FreeType could be made to expose sensitive information if it opened a specially crafted font file.

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It was discovered that FreeType incorrectly handled certain font files.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to access sensitive information.

Ubuntu Pro provides ten-year security coverage to 25,000+ packages in Main and Universe repositories, and it is free for up to five machines.

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

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

USN-4126-2: libfreetype6-dev, libfreetype6, freetype2-demos, freetype, libfreetype6-udeb

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