Microsoft security update for CVE-2011-5244 — cbl2 t1lib 5.1.2-28 on CBL Mariner 2.0
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products1
- cbl2 t1lib 5.1.2-28 on CBL Mariner 2.0
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 1 update
1 row: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
| KB article | Update | Fixed build |
|---|---|---|
| — | Security Update | 5.1.2-28 |
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2011-5244
- EchelonGraph score
- 6.8 MEDIUM
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
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.
Published by MITRE Corporation, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2011-5244, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).