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.
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Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:45:00 +0000
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| 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. | |
| Title | Gnome Fonts Viewer 3.34.0 Heap Corruption | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-787 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: VulnCheck
Published:
Updated: 2026-01-29T16:48:20.316Z
Reserved: 2026-01-27T15:47:08.001Z
Link: CVE-2020-37011
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Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2026-01-29T15:16:08.300
Modified: 2026-01-29T16:31:00.867
Link: CVE-2020-37011
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