Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libXfont2-devel  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-LIBXFONT2DEVEL-17912511
  • published9 Jul 2026
  • disclosed8 Jul 2026

Introduced: 8 Jul 2026

CVE-2026-56002  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:7.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libXfont2-devel package and not the libXfont2-devel package as distributed by RHEL.

A heap bufferflow in pcfReadFont() due to missing glyph bounds checking in libXfont2 before 2.0.8  allows attackers authenticated as X client to execute code within the X server.