CVE-2026-23865

State: Published
Severity: 5.3 Medium
Published: Mar 2, 2026
Updated: Mar 4, 2026
Reserved: Jan 16, 2026

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.3 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:U/RL:O/RC:C	Meta

Weaknesses

CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read

Affected Products

Product	Versions
FreeTypeFreeType	2.13.2 through 2.13.3Affected 2.14.0 through 2.14.1Affected

References

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

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