The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:3421 advisory.

    FreeType is a free, high-quality, portable font engine that can open and manage font files. FreeType     loads, hints, and renders individual glyphs efficiently.

    Security Fix(es):

    * freetype: OOB write when attempting to parse font subglyph structures related to TrueType GX and     variable font files (CVE-2025-27363)

    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.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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RHEL 8 : freetype (RHSA-2025:3421)

high Nessus Plugin ID 233678

Version 1.1