CVE-2011-5244

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.4% 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-189

Description

Multiple off-by-one errors in the (1) token and (2) linetoken functions in backend/dvi/mdvi-lib/afmparse.c in t1lib, as used in teTeX 3.0.x, GNOME evince, and possibly other products, allow 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, different vulnerabilities than CVE-2010-2642 and CVE-2011-0433.

Affected products

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

References

http://git.gnome.org/browse/evince/commit/?id=439c5070022e
http://git.gnome.org/browse/evince/commit/?id=d4139205b010
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/21
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=643882
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80271
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-57
http://git.gnome.org/browse/evince/commit/?id=439c5070022e
http://git.gnome.org/browse/evince/commit/?id=d4139205b010
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/21
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=643882
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80271
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-57

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