openSUSE 16: freetype2-devel / freetype2-profile-tti35 / ft2demos / ftbench / etc (openSUSE-SU-2026:21362-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 327749

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote openSUSE 16 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2026:21362-1 advisory.

This update for freetype2 fixes the following issues

- Update to version 2.14.3
- CVE-2026-23865: Integer overflow in the tt_var_load_item_variation_store function (bsc#1259118).
- CVE-2026-50811: out-of-bounds read vulnerabilityin src/truetype/ttgxvar.c in the TT_Get_Var_Design implementation used by FT_Get_Var_Design_Coordinates (bsc#1271045).

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

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 327749

File Name: openSUSE-2026-21362-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 7/18/2026

Updated: 7/18/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.8

Percentile: 22.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-50811

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ftgamma, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ftgrid, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:16.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ftview, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ftmulti, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ftvalid, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libfreetype6, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ftsdf, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:freetype2-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ftbench, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ftstring, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ftdiff, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ftdump, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ftinspect, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ftlint, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:freetype2-profile-tti35, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ft2demos

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/16/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/2/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-23865, CVE-2026-50811

Detections

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