CVE-2019-19308 (GCVE-0-2019-19308)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-11-27 14:37 – Updated: 2024-08-05 02:16
VLAI
Summary
In text_to_glyphs in sushi-font-widget.c in gnome-font-viewer 3.34.0, there is a NULL pointer dereference while parsing a TTF font file that lacks a name section (due to a g_strconcat call that returns NULL).
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
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