diff --git a/docs/releasenotes/9.4.0.rst b/docs/releasenotes/9.4.0.rst
index a0d26dc524c..2d83b7bf5c1 100644
--- a/docs/releasenotes/9.4.0.rst
+++ b/docs/releasenotes/9.4.0.rst
@@ -81,6 +81,13 @@ check the image size before allocating memory for it. This dates to the PIL
 fork. Pilllow 8.2.0 added a check for large sizes, but did not consider the
 case where one dimension was zero.
 
+Null pointer dereference crash in ImageFont
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Pillow attempted to dereference a null pointer in ``ImageFont``, leading to a
+crash. An error is now raised instead. This would have been present since
+Pillow 8.0.0.
+
 Other Changes
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