CVE-2026-23865

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2026-03-02 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-125

Description

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.

Affected products

FreeType: from 2.13.2 through 2.13.3; from 2.14.0 through 2.14.1

References

https://gitlab.com/freetype/freetype/-/commit/fc85a255849229c024c8e65f536fe1875d84841c
https://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/freetype2/2.14.2/
https://www.facebook.com/security/advisories/cve-2026-23865
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/03/03/8

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