A flaw was found in FreeType, specifically within its CID font loader. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by tricking a user into opening content that embeds or references a specially crafted CID-keyed font. This crafted font can cause repeated allocations and decryptions of subroutine data across multiple font dictionaries, leading to excessive memory and CPU consumption. This can result in a denial of service (DoS) for the application or service processing the font, potentially causing it to hang or terminate.

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 26.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-8881-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that FreeType had a flaw in its CID font loader. An attacker could possibly use this     issue to cause FreeType to consume excessive memory and CPU resources, leading to a denial of service.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - A flaw was found in FreeType, specifically within its CID font loader. A remote attacker could exploit
    this vulnerability by tricking a user into opening content that embeds or references a specially crafted
    CID-keyed font. This crafted font can cause repeated allocations and decryptions of subroutine data across
    multiple font dictionaries, leading to excessive memory and CPU consumption. This can result in a denial
    of service (DoS) for the application or service processing the font, potentially causing it to hang or
    terminate. (CVE-2026-95512)

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - A flaw was found in FreeType, specifically within its CID font loader. A remote attacker could exploit     this vulnerability by tricking a user into opening content that embeds or references a specially crafted     CID-keyed font. This crafted font can cause repeated allocations and decryptions of subroutine data across     multiple font dictionaries, leading to excessive memory and CPU consumption. This can result in a denial     of service (DoS) for the application or service processing the font, potentially causing it to hang or     terminate. (CVE-2026-95512)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
363810	Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 26.04 LTS : FreeType vulnerability (USN-8881-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	Local	medium
473209	Echo: freetype: security update to 2.13.3+dfsg-1+e6	Tenable Cloud Security	Echo Local Security Checks	Local	medium
473209	Echo: freetype: security update to 2.13.3+dfsg-1+e6	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Echo Local Security Checks	Local	medium
362660	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-95512	Nessus	Misc.	Local	medium

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