FKIE_CVE-2026-34085

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-03-25 17:17 - Updated: 2026-03-27 21:39
Severity ?
5.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
fontconfig before 2.17.1 has an off-by-one error in allocation during sfnt capability handling, leading to a one-byte out-of-bounds write, and potentially a crash or code execution. This is in FcFontCapabilities in fcfreetype.c.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://gitlab.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/fontconfig/-/commit/b9bec06d73340f1b5727302d13ac3df307b7febcPatch
cve@mitre.orghttps://gitlab.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/fontconfig/-/merge_requests/446Patch
cve@mitre.orghttps://gitlab.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/fontconfig/-/work_items/481Issue Tracking
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
fontconfig_project fontconfig *
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              "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:fontconfig_project:fontconfig:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
              "matchCriteriaId": "DDEDDD40-A23D-475A-BF45-FEB2A50FA1DE",
              "versionEndExcluding": "2.17.1",
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      "lang": "en",
      "value": "fontconfig before 2.17.1 has an off-by-one error in allocation during sfnt capability handling, leading to a one-byte out-of-bounds write, and potentially a crash or code execution. This is in FcFontCapabilities in fcfreetype.c."
    },
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      "value": "fontconfig anterior a 2.17.1 tiene un error de uno en la asignaci\u00f3n durante el manejo de capacidades sfnt, lo que lleva a una escritura fuera de l\u00edmites de un byte, y potencialmente a un fallo o ejecuci\u00f3n de c\u00f3digo. Esto se encuentra en FcFontCapabilities en fcfreetype.c."
    }
  ],
  "id": "CVE-2026-34085",
  "lastModified": "2026-03-27T21:39:33.240",
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}


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