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Ubuntu: USN-3263-1 (CVE-2016-10328): FreeType vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-3263-1 (CVE-2016-10328): FreeType vulnerability

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/14/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/21/2017
Modified
04/25/2018

Description

FreeType 2 before 2016-12-16 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to the cff_parser_run function in cff/cffparse.c.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libfreetype6

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