Critical severity · published Sep 10, 2026
CVE-2026-59679
fs_read_glyphs() heap OOB read/write via encoding array index mismatch in libXfont2
9.0
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
fs_read_glyphs() in the libXfont2 font-server client (src/fc/fserve.c) indexes the per-character encoding[] array using num_chars from the FS_QueryXBitmaps16 reply, but that array was allocated with a size derived from num_extents in the separate FS_QueryXExtents16 reply. The two CARD32 fields are never cross-checked. A malicious or compromised font server can send a small num_extents (e.g. 1) in the extents reply, then a large num_chars (e.g. 100000) in the bitmaps reply. This causes attacker-controlled out-of-bounds heap read and writes.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 17% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CS
Container suse/kiosk/tigervnc-x11vnc:1.14-63.8 · SUSE
? before 2.0.3-150000.3.6.1 · source: vendor
CS
Container suse/kiosk/xorg:21.1-83.7 · SUSE
? before 2.0.3-150000.3.6.1 · source: vendor
IS
Image SLES-SAP-Azure · SUSE
? before 2.0.7-160000.5.1 · source: vendor
IS
Image SLES-SAP-Azure-3P · SUSE
? before 2.0.7-160000.5.1 · source: vendor
IS
Image SLES-SAP-BYOS-Azure · SUSE
? before 2.0.7-160000.5.1 · source: vendor
IS
Image SLES-SAP-BYOS-EC2 · SUSE
? before 2.0.7-160000.5.1 · source: vendor
IS
Image SLES-SAP-BYOS-GCE · SUSE
? before 2.0.7-160000.5.1 · source: vendor
IS
Image SLES-SAP-GCE · SUSE
? before 2.0.7-160000.5.1 · source: vendor
IS
Image SLES-SAP-GCE-3P · SUSE
? before 2.0.7-160000.5.1 · source: vendor
IS
Image SLES-SAPCAL-GCE · SUSE
? before 2.0.7-160000.5.1 · source: vendor
IS
Image SLES12-SP5-Azure-SAP-BYOS · SUSE
? before 2.0.3-3.6.1 · source: vendor
IS
Image SLES12-SP5-Azure-SAP-On-Demand · SUSE
? before 2.0.3-3.6.1 · source: vendor
Affected product
CS
Container suse/kiosk/tigervnc-x11vnc:1.14-63.8
SUSE
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9.0
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fs_read_glyphs() heap buffer overflow via cumulative glyph data overflow in libXfont2