fribidi vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
Applications using FriBidi could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it displayed specially crafted text.
Software Description
Alex Murray discovered a stack-based buffer overflow when handling a large number of unicode isolate directives. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 19.10
libfribidi0 - 1.0.5-3.1ubuntu0.19.10.1
Ubuntu 19.04
libfribidi0 - 1.0.5-3.1ubuntu0.19.04.1
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
References
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 19.10
- Ubuntu 19.04
Applications using FriBidi could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it displayed specially crafted text.
Software Description
- fribidi - Free Implementation of the Unicode BiDi algorithm (utility)
Alex Murray discovered a stack-based buffer overflow when handling a large number of unicode isolate directives. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 19.10
libfribidi0 - 1.0.5-3.1ubuntu0.19.10.1
Ubuntu 19.04
libfribidi0 - 1.0.5-3.1ubuntu0.19.04.1
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
References
Continue reading...
