Critical Memory Corruption Flaw in FreeType Could Allow Remote Code Execution

A new high-severity security vulnerability has been discovered in FreeType, a widely used open-source font rendering engine. This vulnerability affects all versions up to 2.13.0 and has been assigned a CVSS score of 8.1, marking it as a serious threat to systems that rely on the FreeType library for handling fonts, including many Linux distributions and embedded devices.

FreeType is a core component in rendering text across major platforms and applications. The vulnerability arises from improper memory management during the parsing of certain complex TrueType