CVE-2011-0433

high

Description

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.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-57

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=679732

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=640923

http://xorl.wordpress.com/2011/02/20/cve-2011-0433-evince-linetoken-buffer-overflow/

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:144

http://secunia.com/advisories/48985

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1201.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2012-11-19

Updated: 2017-07-01

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High