USN-4593-2

Sergei Glazunov discovered that FreeType did not correctly handle certain malformed font files. If a user were tricked into using a specially crafted font file, a remote attacker could cause FreeType to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code with user privileges.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS / freetype

Package

Name: freetype
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/freetype@2.5.2-1ubuntu2.8+esm2?arch=source&distro=trusty/esm

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

2.5.2-1ubuntu2.8+esm2

Affected versions

2.*

2.4.12-0ubuntu1

2.5.0.1-0ubuntu2

2.5.1-1ubuntu1

2.5.1-1ubuntu2

2.5.1-2ubuntu1

2.5.2-1ubuntu1

2.5.2-1ubuntu2

2.5.2-1ubuntu2.1

2.5.2-1ubuntu2.2

2.5.2-1ubuntu2.3

2.5.2-1ubuntu2.4

2.5.2-1ubuntu2.5

2.5.2-1ubuntu2.6

2.5.2-1ubuntu2.7

2.5.2-1ubuntu2.8

2.5.2-1ubuntu2.8+esm1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability":  "Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro",
    "binaries":  [
        {
            "binary_name":  "freetype2-demos",
            "binary_version":  "2.5.2-1ubuntu2.8+esm2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name":  "libfreetype6",
            "binary_version":  "2.5.2-1ubuntu2.8+esm2"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "cves":  [
        {
            "id":  "CVE-2020-15999",
            "severity":  [
                {
                    "score":  "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H",
                    "type":  "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                    "score":  "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H",
                    "type":  "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                    "score":  "high",
                    "type":  "Ubuntu"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "ecosystem":  "Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS"
}

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-4593-2.json"