High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Jan 29, 2026· Updated May 26, 2026

CVE-2020-37011

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 exhaust memory through repeated malloc() calls and potentially crash the gnome-font-viewer process.

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Affected products

GNOME Foundation/Fonts Viewerllm-create
Range: = 3.34.0

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References

apps.gnome.org/FontViewer/nvd
help.gnome.orgnvd
www.exploit-db.com/exploits/48803nvd
www.vulncheck.com/advisories/gnome-fonts-viewer-heap-corruptionnvd

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