CVE-2011-0433

NameCVE-2011-0433
DescriptionHeap-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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-2388-1
Debian Bugs614668, 614669

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
evince (PTS)buster, buster (security)3.30.2-3+deb10u1fixed
bullseye3.38.2-1fixed
bookworm43.1-2fixed
trixie45.0-1fixed
sid46.0-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
evincesourcesqueeze2.30.3-2+squeeze1
evincesource(unstable)2.32.0-1614668
t1libsourcelenny5.1.2-3+lenny1
t1libsourcesqueeze5.1.2-3+squeeze1
t1libsource(unstable)5.1.2-3.5
vftoolsourcelenny2.0alpha-3+lenny1
vftoolsourcesqueeze2.0alpha-4+squeeze1
vftoolsource(unstable)2.0alpha-4.1low614669

Notes

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=640923
vuln source file is lib/t1lib/parseAFM.c, which differs slightly from evince's afmparse.c in the affected areas but it is indeed affected
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=640923
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=643882

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