Advisoriesby IbisRed HatCVE-2026-95512
Red Hat FreeType: resource exhaustion
Medium5.5CVE-2026-95512 · Published Oct 2, 2026 · updated Oct 6, 2026
A flaw was found in FreeType, specifically within its CID font loader. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by tricking a user into opening content that embeds or references a specially crafted CID-keyed font. This crafted font can cause repeated allocations and decryptions of subroutine data across multiple font dictionaries, leading to excessive memory and CPU consumption. This can result in a denial of service (DoS) for the application or service processing the font, potentially causing it to hang or terminate.
Affected versions
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
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| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Product | all versions | No fix yet |
| all versions | No fix yet | |
| all versions | No fix yet | |
| all versions | No fix yet | |
| all versions | No fix yet | |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Product | all versions | No fix yet |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Product | all versions | No fix yet |
| all versions | No fix yet | |
| all versions | No fix yet | |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Product | all versions | No fix yet |
| Red Hat build of OpenJDK 11 ELS Product | all versions | No fix yet |
Details and references
- CVSS 3.1
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Severity from
- the vendor (its own CVE record or advisory)
- Weakness
- CWE-400
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