USN-2902-1: graphite2 vulnerabilities
17 February 2016
graphite2 could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted font.
Releases
Packages
- graphite2 - Font rendering engine for Complex Scripts
Details
Yves Younan discovered that graphite2 incorrectly handled certain malformed
fonts. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially-
crafted font file, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause
graphite2 to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute
arbitrary code.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 15.10
Ubuntu 14.04
After a standard system update you need to restart applications using
graphite2, such as LibreOffice, to make all the necessary changes.