USN-3282-1: FreeType vulnerabilities
Severity
Medium
Vendor
Canonical Ubuntu
Versions Affected
- Canonical Ubuntu 14.04
Description
It was 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, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
Affected Cloud Foundry Products and Versions
Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.
- Cloud Foundry BOSH stemcells are vulnerable, including:
- 3263.x versions prior to 3263.26
- 3312.x versions prior to 3312.26
- 3363.x versions prior to 3363.24
- All other stemcells not listed.
- All versions of Cloud Foundry cflinuxfs2 prior to 1.119.0
Mitigation
OSS users are strongly encouraged to follow one of the mitigations below:
- The Cloud Foundry project recommends upgrading the following BOSH stemcells:
- Upgrade 3263.x versions to 3263.26 or later
- Upgrade 3312.x versions to 3312.26 or later
- Upgrade 3363.x versions to 3363.24 or later
- All other stemcells should be upgraded to the latest version.
- The Cloud Foundry project recommends that Cloud Foundry deployments run with cflinuxfs2 version 1.119.0 or later.
