CVE-2011-5244

Publication date 19 November 2012

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

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.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
evince 12.10 quantal
Not affected
12.04 LTS precise
Not affected
11.10 oneiric
Not affected
10.04 LTS lucid
Fixed 2.30.3-0ubuntu1.2
8.04 LTS hardy Ignored end of life

Notes

jdstrand

this was fixed in the patchset for USN-1035-1, but the afmparse.c portion is only just now getting a CVE