Threats Tagged 'cve-2026-95512'

Red Hat has issued a security advisory for Red Hat Hardened Images RPMs addressing a vulnerability in the freetype package identified as CVE-2026-95512. The update includes new versions of freetype, freetype-demos, and freetype-devel RPMs for aarch64 and x86_64 architectures. No specific details about the nature of the vulnerability or its exploitation are provided. The advisory does not list any fixed versions explicitly, but updated RPMs are available. The severity is assessed as medium.

A vulnerability in FreeType's CID font loader allows a remote attacker to cause excessive memory and CPU consumption by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted CID-keyed font. This can lead to denial of service (DoS) by causing the affected application or service to hang or terminate. The issue has a medium severity rating with a CVSS score of 5.5. Red Hat has released an update to address this flaw in their Hardened Images RPMs.

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.