What is CVE-2019-19308?

CVE-2019-19308 is a medium-severity vulnerability in GNOME Gnome-Font-Viewer, classified under NULL Pointer Dereference. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2019-11-27.

How severe is CVE-2019-19308?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

NULL pointer dereference in GNOME Gnome-Font-Viewer

CVE-2019-19308

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).

EPSS: 0.009 (56.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Gnome Gnome-font-viewer — versions 3.34.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference

References

cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-19308?: CVE-2019-19308 is a medium-severity vulnerability in GNOME Gnome-Font-Viewer, classified under NULL Pointer Dereference. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2019-11-27.
How severe is CVE-2019-19308?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.