Description

Gnome Fonts Viewer 3.34.0 contains a heap corruption vulnerability that allows attackers to trigger an out-of-bounds write by crafting a malicious TTF font file. Attackers can generate a specially crafted TTF file with an oversized pattern to cause an infinite malloc() loop and potentially crash the gnome-font-viewer process.

INFO

Published Date :

2026-01-29T14:28:31.241Z

Last Modified :

2026-03-05T01:27:25.817Z

Source :

VulnCheck
AFFECTED PRODUCTS

The following products are affected by CVE-2020-37011 vulnerability.

Vendors Products
Gnome
  • Fonts Viewer
  • Gnome-font-viewer
REFERENCES

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information to CVE-2020-37011.

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https://apps.gnome.org/FontViewer/ cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://help.gnome.org/ cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-37011 cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-37011 cve-icon
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/48803 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/gnome-fonts-viewer-heap-corruption cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
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