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Medium ALAS2023-2026-1486 1 CVE

Moderate: freetype security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published Mar 16, 2026 · Updated Mar 27, 2026

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-23865: 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.

Fixed packages 6

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 freetype 0:2.13.2-5.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 freetype-debuginfo 0:2.13.2-5.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 freetype-debugsource 0:2.13.2-5.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 freetype-demos 0:2.13.2-5.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 freetype-demos-debuginfo 0:2.13.2-5.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 freetype-devel 0:2.13.2-5.amzn2023.0.2

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-23865.html