CVE-2020-37011

Publication date 30 January 2026

Last updated 30 January 2026


Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5 · High

Score breakdown

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
gnome-font-viewer 25.10 questing
Vulnerable, fix deferred
24.04 LTS noble
Vulnerable, fix deferred
22.04 LTS jammy
Vulnerable, fix deferred
20.04 LTS focal
Vulnerable, fix deferred
18.04 LTS bionic
Vulnerable, fix deferred
16.04 LTS xenial
Vulnerable, fix deferred

Notes


mdeslaur

no details except for the PoC as of 2026-01-30

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.5 · High
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H