Medium
Security advisory
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).
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-19308
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:02 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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).
osv:CVE-2019-19308
Complete source record
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