CVE-2011-0433 (GCVE-0-2011-0433)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-11-19 11:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 21:51
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
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| http://secunia.com/advisories/48985 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| http://xorl.wordpress.com/2011/02/20/cve-2011-043… | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1201.html | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT |
| https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=640923 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA |
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-57 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO |
Date Public
2011-01-30 00:00
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