Vulnerability CVE-2011-0433
Published: 2012-11-19

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.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.8/10
6.4/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Tetex -> Tetex 
T1lib -> T1lib 
Gnome -> Evince 

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