FreeType stuck on 2.5.2 in 16.04 (xenial), update to 2.6.3.
Bug #1546300 reported by
Bungeman
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #1521299: Please merge freetype 2.6.3-3 from Debian testing.
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| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| freetype (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Bug Description
I was browsing the package versions of current Xenial and was horrified to find that FreeType is currently stuck un-updated from Trusty (2.5.2), and it appears time is running out in the schedule to update it. There are an enormous number of improvements in the newer versions of FreeType. Specifically, in 2.6 an actual thread safety model was introduced (FreeType is no longer thread antagonistic). Also, between 2.6 and 2.6.2 FreeType was heavily fuzzed which resulted in a number of fixes, some of which may be of security interest but because they were not found as vulnerabilities they will probably never end up with CVE numbers. I would highly recommend updating the version of FreeType in Xenial to 2.6.3.
Revision history for this message
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in freetype (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.