CVE-2011-0433

Summary

CVECVE-2011-0433
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2012-11-19 12:10:00 UTC
Updated2017-07-01 01:29:00 UTC
DescriptionHeap-based buffer overflow in the linetoken function in afmparse.c in t1lib, as used in teTeX 3.0.x, GNOME evince, and possibly other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a DVI file containing a crafted Adobe Font Metrics (AFM) file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-2642.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-119

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gnome Evince - All All All
Application Gnome Evince - All All All
Application T1lib T1lib All All All All
Application T1lib T1lib All All All All
Application Tetex Tetex 3.0 All All All
Application Tetex Tetex 3.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
About Secunia Research | Flexera SECUNIA secunia.com
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT rhn.redhat.com
Bug 640923 – linetoken() buffer overflow CONFIRM bugzilla.gnome.org
Bug 679732 – CVE-2011-0433 evince, t1lib: Heap-based buffer overflow DVI file AFM font parser CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2012:144 | Mandriva MANDRIVA www.mandriva.com
CVE-2011-0433: Evince linetoken() Buffer Overflow | xorl %eax, %eax MISC xorl.wordpress.com
T1Lib: : Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 201701-57) — Gentoo Security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 710532 Gentoo Linux T1Lib Vulnerability (GLSA 201701-57)
  • 901504 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for t1lib (7377)
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