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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2627-1
June 03, 2015
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
Summary:
t1utils could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it
opened a specially crafted file.
Software Description:
Details:
Jakub Wilk discovered that t1utils incorrectly handled certain malformed fonts.
If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted
font, a remote attacker could crash the application, leading to a denial of
service, or possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges.
Update instructions:
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:
Ubuntu 14.10:
t1utils 1.37-2.1ubuntu0.1
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
t1utils 1.37-2ubuntu1.1
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2627-1
CVE-2015-3905
Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/t1utils/1.37-2.1ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/t1utils/1.37-2ubuntu1.1
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