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USN-5366-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in FriBidi. This update provides the
corresponding updates for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.

Original advisory details:

It was discovered that FriBidi incorrectly handled processing of input strings
resulting in memory corruption. An attacker could use this issue to cause
FriBidi to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or potentially execute
arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-25308)

It was discovered that FriBidi incorrectly validated input data to its CapRTL
unicode encoder, resulting in memory corruption. An attacker could use this
issue to cause FriBidi to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or
potentially execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-25309)

It was discovered that FriBidi incorrectly handled empty input when removing
marks from unicode strings, resulting in a crash. An attacker could use this
to cause FriBidi to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or potentially
execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-25310)

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