Vulnerability CVE-2011-5244
Published: 2012-11-19

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.

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://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
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/80271
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=643882
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-57
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