Ubuntu 13.10 : freetype vulnerabilities (USN-2148-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 73076

Synopsis

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

Description

Mateusz Jurczyk 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 with user privileges.
(CVE-2014-2240, CVE-2014-2241).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected libfreetype6 package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/2148-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 73076

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2148-1.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/18/2014

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libfreetype6, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.10

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/17/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/12/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-2240, CVE-2014-2241

BID: 66074, 66292

USN: 2148-1