Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
Mateusz Jurczyk discovered that FreeType did not correctly handle certain malformed BDF 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.
Affected
freetype on Ubuntu 12.10 ,
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ,
Ubuntu 11.10 ,
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS ,
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2012-5668, CVE-2012-5669, CVE-2012-5670 -
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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