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Ubuntu: USN-5657-1 (CVE-2018-7999): Graphite2 vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-5657-1 (CVE-2018-7999): Graphite2 vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/09/2018
Created
10/12/2022
Added
10/07/2022
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

In libgraphite2 in graphite2 1.3.11, a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability was found in Segment.cpp during a dumbRendering operation, which may allow attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted .ttf file.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libgraphite2-3
  • ubuntu-upgrade-ubuntu

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