Issued:
2026-02-26
Updated:
2026-02-26

RHSA-2026:3407 - Important: mingw-fontconfig security update

Synopsis

Important: mingw-fontconfig security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

An update for mingw-fontconfig is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

MinGW Windows Fontconfig library.

Security Fix(es):

  • expat: libexpat in Expat allows attackers to trigger large dynamic memory allocations via a small document that is submitted for parsing (CVE-2025-59375)

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.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_648x86_64

Updated Packages

  • mingw-fontconfig-2.12.6-4.el8_10.src.rpm
  • mingw32-fontconfig-2.12.6-4.el8_10.noarch.rpm
  • mingw32-fontconfig-debuginfo-2.12.6-4.el8_10.noarch.rpm
  • mingw64-fontconfig-2.12.6-4.el8_10.noarch.rpm
  • mingw64-fontconfig-debuginfo-2.12.6-4.el8_10.noarch.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information