CVE-2011-0433

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-11-19 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

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.

Affected products

GNOME Evince: all versions
T1Lib: all versions
Tetex: 3.0

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
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

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