ubuntu · CVE-2016-5384

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Priority: medium Published: 2016-08-08 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:06:34 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-5384 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (fontconfig), 6 status rows across 6 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): released 6.

Description:

fontconfig before 2.12.1 does not validate offsets, which allows local users to trigger arbitrary free calls and consequently conduct double free attacks and execute arbitrary code via a crafted cache file.

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