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Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 10.04 LTS / 11.10 / 12.04 LTS / 12.10 : freetype vulnerabilities (USN-1686-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 63536

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

Mateusz Jurczyk discovered that FreeType did not correctly handle certain malformed BDF 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.

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Solution

Update the affected libfreetype6 package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1686-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 63536

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1686-1.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/15/2013

Updated: 9/19/2019

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: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libfreetype6, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.10

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/14/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/24/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-5668, CVE-2012-5669, CVE-2012-5670

BID: 57041

USN: 1686-1