Ubuntu: USN-3572-1 (CVE-2018-6942): FreeType vulnerability
4
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
02/13/2018
07/25/2018
02/15/2018
06/25/2020
Description
An issue was discovered in FreeType 2 through 2.9. A NULL pointer dereference in the Ins_GETVARIATION() function within ttinterp.c could lead to DoS via a crafted font file.
Solution(s)
- ubuntu-upgrade-libfreetype6
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