Beschreibung: | Description: The remote host is missing an update to freetype announced via advisory USN-1013-1.
Details follow:
Marc Schoenefeld 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. This issue only affected Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, 8.04 LTS, 9.10 and 10.04 LTS. (CVE-2010-3311)
Chris Evans discovered that FreeType did not correctly handle certain malformed TrueType font files. If a user were tricked into using a specially crafted TrueType file, a remote attacker could cause FreeType to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges. This issue only affected Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, 9.10, 10.04 LTS and 10.10. (CVE-2010-3814)
It was discovered that FreeType did not correctly handle certain malformed TrueType font files. If a user were tricked into using a specially crafted TrueType file, a remote attacker could cause FreeType to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges. (CVE-2010-3855)
Solution: The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS: libfreetype6 2.1.10-1ubuntu2.10
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS: libfreetype6 2.3.5-1ubuntu4.8.04.6
Ubuntu 9.10: libfreetype6 2.3.9-5ubuntu0.4
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS: libfreetype6 2.3.11-1ubuntu2.4
Ubuntu 10.10: libfreetype6 2.4.2-2ubuntu0.1
After a standard system update you need to restart your session to make all the necessary changes.
http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=USN-1013-1
Risk factor : Critical
CVSS Score: 9.3
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