CVE-2019-19308

gnome-font-viewer: NULL pointer dereference in text_to_glyphs in sushi-font-widget.c

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

3.3

CVSS 3.1

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Published · November 27, 2019

Updated · November 22, 2025

Description

A NULL pointer dereference was discovered in the gnome-font-viewer in the way it deals with fonts without a family name. A user may be tricked into opening a specially crafted font, which could make the gnome-font-viewer crash.

Statement

This issue did not affect the versions of gnome-font-viewer as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, and 8 as they did not include the vulnerable code.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 3.3
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference