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<h1>Security update for freetype2</h1>
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<th>Announcement ID:</th>
<td>SUSE-SU-2026:20730-1</td>
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<th>Release Date:</th>
<td>2026-03-16T13:24:14Z</td>
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<th>Rating:</th>
<td>moderate</td>
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<th>References:</th>
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<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1252148">bsc#1252148</a>
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<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1259118">bsc#1259118</a>
</li>
</ul>
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Cross-References:
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<ul>
<li style="display: inline;">
<a href="https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-23865.html">CVE-2026-23865</a>
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<th>CVSS scores:</th>
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<span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2026-23865</span>
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(
SUSE
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<span class="cvss-score">4.6</span>
<span class="cvss-vector">CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N</span>
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<span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2026-23865</span>
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(
SUSE
):
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<span class="cvss-score">5.3</span>
<span class="cvss-vector">CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L</span>
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<span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2026-23865</span>
<span class="cvss-source">
(
NVD
):
</span>
<span class="cvss-score">5.3</span>
<span class="cvss-vector">CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L</span>
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<th>Affected Products:</th>
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<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Micro 6.0</li>
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<p>An update that solves one vulnerability and has one fix can now be installed.</p>
<h2>Description:</h2>
<p>This update for freetype2 fixes the following issue:</p>
<p>Update to freetype2 2.14.2:</p>
<ul>
<li>CVE-2026-23865: Integer overflow in the tt_var_load_item_variation_store function (bsc#1259118).</li>
</ul>
<p>Changelog:</p>
<ul>
<li>Several changes related to LCD filtering are implemented to
achieve better performance and encourage sound practices.</li>
<li>Instead of blanket LCD filtering over the entire bitmap, it
is now applied only to non-zero spans using direct rendering.
This speeds up the ClearType-like rendering by more than 40%
at sizes above 32 ppem.</li>
<li>Setting the filter weights with FT_Face_Properties is no
longer supported. The default and light filters are optimized
to work with any face.</li>
<li>The legacy libXft LCD filter algorithm is no longer provided.</li>
<li>The italic angle in <code>PS_FontInfo</code> is now stored as a fixed-point
value in degrees for all Type 1 fonts and their derivatives,
consistent with CFF fonts and common practices. The broken
underline position and thickness values are fixed for CFF fonts.</li>
<li>The <code>x</code> field in the <code>FT_Span</code> structure is now unsigned.</li>
<li>Demo program <code>ftgrid</code> got an option <code>-m</code> to select a start
character to display.</li>
<li>Similarly, demo program <code>ftmulti</code> got an option <code>-m</code> to select a
text string for rendering.</li>
<li>Option <code>-d</code> in the demo program <code>ttdebug</code> is now called <code>-a</code>,
expecting a comma-separated list of axis values. The user
interface is also slightly improved.</li>
<li>The <code>ftinspect</code> demo program can now be compiled with Qt6, too.</li>
<li>The auto-hinter got new abilities. It can now better separate
diacritic glyphs from base glyphs at small sizes by
artificially moving diacritics up (or down) if necessary</li>
<li>Tilde accent glyphs get vertically stretched at small sizes so
that they don't degenerate to horizontal lines.</li>
<li>Diacritics directly attached to a base glyph (like the ogonek in
character 'ę') no longer distort the shape of the base glyph</li>
<li>The TrueType instruction interpreter was optimized to
produce a 15% gain in the glyph loading speed.</li>
<li>Handling of Variation Fonts is now considerably faster</li>
<li>TrueType and CFF glyph loading speed has been improved by 5-10%
on modern 64-bit platforms as a result of better handling of
fixed-point multiplication.</li>
<li>The BDF driver now loads fonts 75% faster.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Patch Instructions:</h2>
<p>
To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended
installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".<br/>
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
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SUSE Linux Micro 6.0
<br/>
<code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-6.0-623=1</code>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>Package List:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
SUSE Linux Micro 6.0 (aarch64 s390x x86_64)
<ul>
<li>freetype2-debugsource-2.14.2-1.1</li>
<li>libfreetype6-2.14.2-1.1</li>
<li>libfreetype6-debuginfo-2.14.2-1.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>References:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-23865.html">https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-23865.html</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1252148">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1252148</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1259118">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1259118</a>
</li>
</ul>
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