Freetype: freetype: denial of service via repeated subroutine allocations in cid font loader
Products / packages Red Hat Hardened Images · Red Hat build of OpenJDK 11 ELS · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 · 4 more
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Severity and exploitation
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Assessment vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HSeverity
medium5.5CVSS measures technical severity, not the likelihood of an attack.
Known exploitation
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Public exploit
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Remediation
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What this means
A flaw in FreeType's CID font loader can cause excessive memory and CPU consumption, leading to a denial of service. A remote attacker could exploit this by tricking a user into opening specially crafted content. The affected products include various Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions.
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Red Hat Hardened Images
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Red Hat Hardened Images
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unaffected
2.14.3-2.1.hum1 → before *
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Product identifiers (CPE)
cpe:/a:redhat:hummingbird:1Red Hat · redhat
Red Hat build of OpenJDK 11 ELS
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Red Hat build of OpenJDK 11 ELS
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Product identifiers (CPE)
cpe:/a:redhat:openjdk_els:11Red Hat · redhat
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
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Product identifiers (CPE)
cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:10Red Hat · redhat
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
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cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:10Red Hat · redhat
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
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cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:10Red Hat · redhat
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
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cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:10Red Hat · redhat
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cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:10Red Hat · redhat
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
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Other versions: unknown
Product identifiers (CPE)
cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_els:6Red Hat · redhat
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
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Product identifiers (CPE)
cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_els:7Red Hat · redhat
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
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cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_els:7Red Hat · redhat
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
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cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_els:7Red Hat · redhat
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
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cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8Red Hat · redhat
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
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cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8Red Hat · redhat
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
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cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8Red Hat · redhat
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
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cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8Red Hat · redhat
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
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cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8Red Hat · redhat
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
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cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8Red Hat · redhat
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
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cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8Red Hat · redhat
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cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8Red Hat · redhat
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
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Product identifiers (CPE)
cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9Red Hat · redhat
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
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cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9Red Hat · redhat
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
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cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9Red Hat · redhat
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
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cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9Red Hat · redhat
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
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cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9Red Hat · redhat
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
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cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9What to do
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Public exploit evidence
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Original source description
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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.
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Original records
CVE-2026-95512View the latest unmodified CVE JSON from the official source. It may be newer than this imported page.
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