Advisory severityMedium5.5Red Hat Linux

Medium [CVE-2026-95512] Denial of Service via repeated subroutine allocations in CID font loader

This medium-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-95512; related products: Red Hat Hardened Images, Red Hat build of OpenJDK 11 ELS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.

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CVE-2026-95512 Source published Oct 2, 2026Source updated Oct 2, 2026

VulniPulse record published Oct 2, 2026Record updated Oct 3, 2026

CVE-2026-95512

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Summary

Denial of Service via repeated subroutine allocations in CID font loader. Red Hat rates this moderate (CVSS 5.5).

Weakness: CWE-400. Red Hat lists fixing advisory RHSA-2026:74952 with package freetype-main-2.14.3-2.1.hum1.

Affected products named by the advisory: Red Hat Hardened Images; Red Hat build of OpenJDK 11 ELS; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7; and 2 more.

Affected products named by the advisory: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

Affected versions

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Fixed versions

freetype-main-2.14.3-2.1.hum1
RHSA-2026:74952

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Mitigation checklist

Temporary workarounds

Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base, or stability.

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