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font viewer for GNOME

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general
  • source: gnome-font-viewer (main)
  • version: 50.0-1
  • maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers (archive) (DMD)
  • uploaders: Laurent Bigonville [DMD] – Jeremy Bícha [DMD]
  • arch: any
  • std-ver: 4.7.4
  • VCS: Git (Browse, QA)
versions [more versions can be listed by madison] [old versions available from snapshot.debian.org]
[pool directory]
  • o-o-stable: 3.34.0-2
  • oldstable: 43.0-1
  • stable: 48.0-2
  • testing: 49.0-1
  • unstable: 50.0-1
versioned links
  • 3.34.0-2: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
  • 43.0-1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
  • 48.0-2: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
  • 49.0-1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
  • 50.0-1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
binaries
  • gnome-font-viewer (3 bugs: 0, 3, 0, 0)
action needed
1 security issue in trixie high

There is 1 open security issue in trixie.

1 important issue:
  • CVE-2020-37011: 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 cause an infinite malloc() loop and potentially crash the gnome-font-viewer process.
Created: 2026-01-30 Last update: 2026-04-01 22:19
1 security issue in sid high

There is 1 open security issue in sid.

1 important issue:
  • CVE-2020-37011: 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 cause an infinite malloc() loop and potentially crash the gnome-font-viewer process.
Created: 2026-01-30 Last update: 2026-04-01 22:19
1 security issue in forky high

There is 1 open security issue in forky.

1 important issue:
  • CVE-2020-37011: 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 cause an infinite malloc() loop and potentially crash the gnome-font-viewer process.
Created: 2026-01-30 Last update: 2026-04-01 22:19
1 security issue in bullseye high

There is 1 open security issue in bullseye.

1 important issue:
  • CVE-2020-37011: 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 cause an infinite malloc() loop and potentially crash the gnome-font-viewer process.
Created: 2026-01-30 Last update: 2026-04-01 22:19
1 security issue in bookworm high

There is 1 open security issue in bookworm.

1 important issue:
  • CVE-2020-37011: 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 cause an infinite malloc() loop and potentially crash the gnome-font-viewer process.
Created: 2026-01-30 Last update: 2026-04-01 22:19
lintian reports 3 warnings normal
Lintian reports 3 warnings about this package. You should make the package lintian clean getting rid of them.
Created: 2025-09-12 Last update: 2026-04-02 04:31
Issues found with some translations low

Automatic checks made by the Debian l10n team found some issues with the translations contained in this package. You should check the l10n status report for more information.

Issues can be things such as missing translations, problematic translated strings, outdated PO files, unknown languages, etc.

Created: 2026-04-02 Last update: 2026-04-02 09:32
testing migrations
  • excuses:
    • Migration status for gnome-font-viewer (49.0-1 to 50.0-1): Waiting for test results or another package, or too young (no action required now - check later)
    • Issues preventing migration:
    • ∙ ∙ Too young, only 3 of 5 days old
    • Additional info (not blocking):
    • ∙ ∙ Piuparts tested OK - https://piuparts.debian.org/sid/source/g/gnome-font-viewer.html
    • ∙ ∙ Reproduced on amd64
    • ∙ ∙ Reproduced on arm64
    • ∙ ∙ Reproducibility regression on armhf: gnome-font-viewer
    • ∙ ∙ Reproducibility regression on i386: gnome-font-viewer
    • ∙ ∙ Reproduced on ppc64el
    • Not considered
news
[rss feed]
  • [2026-04-01] Accepted gnome-font-viewer 50.0-1 (source) into unstable (Jeremy Bícha)
  • [2025-09-17] gnome-font-viewer 49.0-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2025-09-12] Accepted gnome-font-viewer 49.0-1 (source) into unstable (Jeremy Bícha)
  • [2025-09-11] Accepted gnome-font-viewer 49~rc-1 (source) into unstable (Jeremy Bícha)
  • [2025-05-13] gnome-font-viewer 48.0-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2025-05-03] Accepted gnome-font-viewer 48.0-2 (source) into unstable (Matthias Klumpp)
  • [2025-03-20] gnome-font-viewer 48.0-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2025-03-14] Accepted gnome-font-viewer 48.0-1 (source) into unstable (Jeremy Bícha) (signed by: Jeremy Bicha)
  • [2024-09-22] gnome-font-viewer 47.0-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2024-09-16] Accepted gnome-font-viewer 47.0-1 (source) into unstable (Jeremy Bícha) (signed by: Jeremy Bicha)
  • [2024-08-15] gnome-font-viewer 47~alpha-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2024-08-09] Accepted gnome-font-viewer 47~alpha-1 (source) into unstable (Jeremy Bícha) (signed by: Jeremy Bicha)
  • [2024-04-27] gnome-font-viewer 46.0-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2024-03-28] Accepted gnome-font-viewer 46.0-1 (source) into unstable (Jeremy Bícha) (signed by: Jeremy Bicha)
  • [2023-09-24] gnome-font-viewer 45.0-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2023-09-18] Accepted gnome-font-viewer 45.0-1 (source) into unstable (Jeremy Bícha) (signed by: Jeremy Bicha)
  • [2023-09-05] gnome-font-viewer 45~alpha-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2023-09-05] gnome-font-viewer 45~alpha-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2023-08-30] Accepted gnome-font-viewer 45~alpha-2 (source) into unstable (Jeremy Bícha) (signed by: Jeremy Bicha)
  • [2023-08-16] Accepted gnome-font-viewer 45~alpha-1 (source) into experimental (Jeremy Bícha) (signed by: Jeremy Bicha)
  • [2023-07-29] gnome-font-viewer 44.0-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2023-07-23] Accepted gnome-font-viewer 44.0-2 (source) into unstable (Jeremy Bícha) (signed by: Jeremy Bicha)
  • [2023-03-27] Accepted gnome-font-viewer 44.0-1 (source) into experimental (Jeremy Bicha)
  • [2023-02-14] Accepted gnome-font-viewer 44~beta-1 (source) into experimental (Jeremy Bicha)
  • [2022-09-25] gnome-font-viewer 43.0-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2022-09-25] gnome-font-viewer 43.0-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2022-09-19] Accepted gnome-font-viewer 43.0-1 (source) into unstable (Jeremy Bicha)
  • [2022-09-12] gnome-font-viewer 43~rc-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
  • [2022-09-06] Accepted gnome-font-viewer 43~rc-1 (source) into unstable (Jeremy Bicha)
  • [2022-08-16] gnome-font-viewer 43~beta-1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
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bugs [bug history graph]
  • all: 3
  • RC: 0
  • I&N: 3
  • M&W: 0
  • F&P: 0
  • patch: 0
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  • version: 49.0-1
  • 27 bugs

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