CVE-2011-1553

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-03-31 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in t1lib 5.1.2 and earlier, as used in Xpdf before 3.02pl6, teTeX, and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a PDF document containing a crafted Type 1 font that triggers an invalid memory write, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-0764.

Affected products

Foolabs Xpdf: 0.5a, 0.7a, 0.91a, 0.91b, 0.91c, 0.92a (+13)
Glyphandcog Xpdfreader: through 3.02; 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.7 (+14)
T1Lib: through 5.1.2; 0.1-alpha, 0.2-beta, 0.3-beta, 0.4-beta, 0.5-beta, 0.6-beta (+17)

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1201.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/43823
http://secunia.com/advisories/48985
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8171
http://securitytracker.com/id?1025266
http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/376500
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/MAPG-8ECL8X
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:144
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/517205/100/0/threaded
http://www.toucan-system.com/advisories/tssa-2011-01.txt
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0728

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