CVE-2011-0433

Heap-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.

Score

CVSS 2.0 6.8 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2012-11-19

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-119

Affected products

• Evince (Gnome)
• T1lib (T1lib)
• Tetex (Tetex)

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1201.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/48985
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:144
• http://xorl.wordpress.com/2011/02/20/cve-2011-0433-evince-linetoken-buffer-overflow/
• https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=640923
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=679732
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-57