CVE-2011-5244 Information

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.

Reference

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