CVE-2020-37011
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CVE-2020-37011 is a high-severity vulnerability rated 8.4/10 on the CVSS scale. 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.. EPSS estimates a 0.41% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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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- Status
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