Executive Summary

Summary
Title FreeType vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-4126-1 First vendor Publication 2019-09-09
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2019-09-09
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 4.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

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

- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Summary:

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

Software Description: - freetype: FreeType 2 is a font engine library

Details:

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

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
libfreetype6 2.6.1-0.1ubuntu2.4

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

References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4126-1
CVE-2015-9383

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/freetype/2.6.1-0.1ubuntu2.4

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-4126-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 55
Os 3
Os 1

Alert History

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Date Informations
2019-09-10 09:22:04
  • Multiple Updates
2019-09-09 21:19:08
  • First insertion