CVE-2026-50811

Publication date 7 July 2026

Last updated 16 July 2026

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

An out-of-bounds read vulnerability exists in FreeType 2.14.3 and versions before commit 5a280ecde6f324de0d226261036e736e0cb49a71 in src/truetype/ttgxvar.c, in the TT_Get_Var_Design implementation used by FT_Get_Var_Design_Coordinates

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
freetype	26.04 LTS resolute	Needs evaluation
	25.10 questing	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

Notes

mdeslaur

per Debian, this issue was introduced in 2.14.0 by this: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freetype/freetype/-/commit/f64c7db2fee3f5304df1cd722df72699736118f3

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
freetype	Upstream: 5a280ec Upstream: 8fa928f

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 6.5 · Medium

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	Low
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	Low

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.5 · Medium
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L