FKIE_CVE-2026-23865

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-03-02 17:16 - Updated: 2026-03-04 01:15
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Summary
An integer overflow in the tt_var_load_item_variation_store function of the Freetype library in versions 2.13.2 and 2.13.3 may allow for an out of bounds read operation when parsing HVAR/VVAR/MVAR tables in OpenType variable fonts. This issue is fixed in version 2.14.2.
References
cve-assign@fb.comhttps://gitlab.com/freetype/freetype/-/commit/fc85a255849229c024c8e65f536fe1875d84841c
cve-assign@fb.comhttps://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/freetype2/2.14.2/
cve-assign@fb.comhttps://www.facebook.com/security/advisories/cve-2026-23865
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/03/03/8
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