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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.0

CVE-2025-23022 json

FreeType 2.8.1 has a signed integer overflow in cf2_doFlex in cff/cf2intrp.c.

published 2025-01-10 21 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2025-3078

cvss
4.0
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 15%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

FreeType 2.8.1 has a signed integer overflow in cf2_doFlex in cff/cf2intrp.c.

Patch / fix

  • freetype2 SLES LTSS Extended Security 12 SP5 2.6.3-7.24.1
  • ft2demos SLES LTSS Extended Security 12 SP5 2.6.3-7.24.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2025:1528-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2025-23022 updated cvss 5.5

freetype: signed integer overflow in cf2_doFlex

  • Red Hat build of OpenJDK 11 java-11-openjdk-portable java-11-openjdk-portable Red Hat build of OpenJDK 17 java-17-openjdk-portable java-17-openjdk-portable Red Hat build of OpenJDK 21 java-21-openjdk-portable-rhel7 java-21-openjdk-portable-rhel7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 freetype, freetype-demos Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 freetype, freetype-demos Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 freetype, mingw-freetype, java-17-openjdk, java-21-openjdk, mingw32-freetype, mingw64-freetype, +42 more
    +3 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 freetype, java-17-openjdk, java-21-openjdk, java-17-openjdk-src, java-21-openjdk-src, java-17-openjdk-demo, +39 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 freetype, java-21-openjdk Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8, openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
21 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 15% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • gitlab.freedesktop.org https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freetype/freetype/-/issues/1312 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 4.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
NVD 3.1 6.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • FreeType FreeType

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound

References

Sources

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