Medium
Canonical Ubuntu
Holger Fuhrmannek and Tyson Smith 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.
Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.
OSS users are strongly encouraged to follow one of the mitigations below: