CVE-2020-37011

HIGH

Gnome Fonts Viewer 3.34.0 - Memory Corruption

Title source: llm

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.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC
by Cody Winkler · pythonlocallinux
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/48803

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0004
EPSS Percentile 11.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE
CWE-787
Status draft

Timeline

Published Jan 29, 2026
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026