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CVE-2011-2895

HIGHEPSS 94th pctl
9.3
CVSS v2
NVD

Description

The LZW decompressor in (1) the BufCompressedFill function in fontfile/decompress.c in X.Org libXfont before 1.4.4 and (2) compress/compress.c in 4.3BSD, as used in zopen.c in OpenBSD before 3.8, FreeBSD, NetBSD 4.0.x and 5.0.x before 5.0.3 and 5.1.x before 5.1.1, FreeType 2.1.9, and other products, does not properly handle code words that are absent from the decompression table when encountered, which allows context-dependent attackers to trigger an infinite loop or a heap-based buffer overflow, and possibly execute arbitrary code, via a crafted compressed stream, a related issue to CVE-2006-1168 and CVE-2011-2896.

How to fix

Remediation Available
libxfontDebian
Fixed in:1:1.4.4-1CVE-2011-2895
Fixed in:1:1.4.4-1CVE-2011-2895
Fixed in:1:1.4.4-1CVE-2011-2895
Fixed in:1:1.4.4-1CVE-2011-2895

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v2 Vector

No CVSS vector data available.

Exploit Intelligence

8.36%probability of exploitation in 30 days
94thpercentile

High risk: more likely to be exploited than 94% of all known CVEs.

References

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