CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-95512
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Awaiting Analysis
- Published
- 2026-10-02
- Last modified
- 2026-10-06
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
Description
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.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:74952 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-95512 access.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2462295 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freetype/freetype/-/commit/f3ca71c9900fe860849b3163a6e2c1e765b291d9 gitlab.freedesktop.org