Microsoft security update for CVE-2026-23865
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products4
- azl3 freetype 2.13.2-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
- azl3 freetype 2.13.2-2 on Azure Linux 3.0
- cbl2 freetype 2.13.1-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0
- cbl2 freetype 2.13.1-2 on CBL Mariner 2.0
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 2 updates
2 rows: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
| KB article | Update | Fixed build |
|---|---|---|
| — | Security Update | 2.13.2-2 |
| — | Security Update | 2.13.1-2 |
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2026-23865
- EchelonGraph score
- 5.3 MEDIUM
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
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.
Published by Meta Platforms, Inc., the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2026-23865, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).