RLSA-2026:55448

Source
https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2026:55448
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2026:55448.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/RLSA-2026:55448
Upstream
  • CVE-2026-44950
  • CVE-2026-59679
Published
2026-08-17T18:06:54.076078Z
Modified
2026-08-17T18:30:03.408459317Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
Important: libXfont2 security update
Details

X.Org X11 libXfont2 runtime library

Security Fix(es):

  • libxfont2: Font Server Client encoding[] Out-Of-Bounds Read/Write (CVE-2026-59679)

  • libxfonts2: libXfont2: Privilege Escalation via Heap Buffer Overflow in Font Server Client (CVE-2026-44950)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Database specific
{
    "license": "CC-BY-4.0",
    "source_advisory": "RHSA-2026:55448",
    "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}
References
Credits
    • Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation
    • Red Hat

Affected packages

Rocky Linux:10 / libXfont2

Package

Name
libXfont2
Purl
pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/libXfont2?distro=rocky-linux-10&epoch=0

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0:2.0.6-5.el10_2.3
Database specific
Show details
{
    "yum_repository": "AppStream"
}

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2026:55448.json"