Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 12.04 LTS / 14.04 LTS / 14.10 : freetype vulnerabilities (USN-2510-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 81509

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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 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/2510-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 81509

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2510-1.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/25/2015

Updated: 1/19/2021

Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

Temporal Vector: E:U/RL:OF/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libfreetype6, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.10

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/24/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/8/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-9656, CVE-2014-9657, CVE-2014-9658, CVE-2014-9659, CVE-2014-9660, CVE-2014-9661, CVE-2014-9662, CVE-2014-9663, CVE-2014-9664, CVE-2014-9665, CVE-2014-9666, CVE-2014-9667, CVE-2014-9668, CVE-2014-9669, CVE-2014-9670, CVE-2014-9671, CVE-2014-9672, CVE-2014-9673, CVE-2014-9674, CVE-2014-9675

USN: 2510-1