74528 : t1lib PDF Type 1 Font Handling Invalid Memory Write Use-after-free DoS
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Timeline

Disclosure Date
2011-03-21

Description

<em style='font-weight:bold;'>(Description Provided by <a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2011-1553" target="_blank">CVE</a>)</em> : Use-after-free vulnerability in t1lib 5.1.2 and earlier, as used in Xpdf before 3.02pl6, teTeX, and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a PDF document containing a crafted Type 1 font that triggers an invalid memory write, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-0764.

Classification

Attack Type: Denial of Service
Impact: Loss of Availability
Solution: Solution Unknown
Exploit: Exploit Unknown

Solution

OSVDB is not aware of a solution for this vulnerability. Per US-CERT, Foolabs "has stated they will stop using t1lib in their product and users should build Xpdf without t1lib."

Products

Unknown or Incomplete

References

Security Tracker: 1025266
CVE ID: 2011-1553 (see also: NVD)
CERT VU: 376500
Secunia Advisory ID: 43823 47532 47639 47747 48042 48985 50375
Bugtraq ID: 47169
Related OSVDB ID: 74526 74527
VUPEN Advisory: ADV-2011-0728
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-04/msg00061.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2388
http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/MAPG-8ECL8X
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1335-1
Other Advisory URL: http://www.toucan-system.com/advisories/tssa-2011-01.txt
RedHat RHSA: RHSA-2012:0062 RHSA-2012:0137 RHSA-2012:1201

Credit

Unknown or Incomplete

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 4.3
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2011-04-01 | Disagree?

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