Off-by-one Error The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package fontconfig (opens in a new tab)
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- published30 Mar 2026
- disclosed25 Mar 2026
Introduced: 25 Mar 2026
CVE-2026-34085 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream fontconfig package and not the fontconfig package as distributed by RHEL.
fontconfig before 2.17.1 has an off-by-one error in allocation during sfnt capability handling, leading to a one-byte out-of-bounds write, and potentially a crash or code execution. This is in FcFontCapabilities in fcfreetype.c.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-34085
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/fontconfig/-/commit/b9bec06d73340f1b5727302d13ac3df307b7febc
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/fontconfig/-/merge_requests/446
- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/fontconfig/-/work_items/481