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Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : freetype vulnerabilities (USN-291-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 27863

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

Several integer overflows have been discovered in the FreeType library. By tricking a user into installing and/or opening a specially crafted font file, these could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of that user.

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Solution

Update the affected freetype2-demos, libfreetype6 and / or libfreetype6-dev packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/291-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 27863

File Name: ubuntu_USN-291-1.nasl

Version: 1.20

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/10/2007

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libfreetype6-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libfreetype6, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:freetype2-demos

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/8/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-0747, CVE-2006-1861, CVE-2006-2661

USN: 291-1