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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2902-1

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2902-1
Posted Feb 17, 2016
Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 2902-1 - 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.

tags | advisory, remote, denial of service, arbitrary
systems | linux, ubuntu
advisories | CVE-2016-1521, CVE-2016-1522, CVE-2016-1523, CVE-2016-1526
SHA-256 | 4ecb16d84a83cc63b11ddbf287df3bdab9b45a54ffb4113420c9511004c21441

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2902-1

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2902-1
February 17, 2016

graphite2 vulnerabilities
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 15.10
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary:

graphite2 could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it
opened a specially crafted font.

Software Description:
- 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:
libgraphite2-3 1.2.4-3ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
libgraphite2-3 1.2.4-1ubuntu1.1

After a standard system update you need to restart applications using
graphite2, such as LibreOffice, to make all the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2902-1
CVE-2016-1521, CVE-2016-1522, CVE-2016-1523, CVE-2016-1526

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/graphite2/1.2.4-3ubuntu1.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/graphite2/1.2.4-1ubuntu1.1
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