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CVE-2011-2895

The LZW decompressor in (1) the BufCompressedFill function in fontfile/decompress.c in X.Org libXfont before 1.4.4 and (

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.

HIGH · CVSS 9.3 EPSS 0.07018
Schedule remediation
  • EPSS percentile: top 8% of all CVEs by exploitation likelihood
  • CVSS base score ≥ 7.0
Sigma rules0 YARA rules0

Affected Products & Versions

7
freetypeall versions
x libxfont<= 1.4.3
x libxfontall versions
freebsdall versions
netbsdall versions
openbsd<= 3.7
openbsdall versions

Scoring & Timeline

9.3
HIGH · CVSS v2 (legacy) · secalert@redhat.com
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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.
v2 Vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Published to NVD19 Aug 2011 · 05:55 PM

Vendor Advisories

12
suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:10169-1
suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:10294-1
suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:10299-1
rhsaRHSA-2012:1180Moderate
rhsaRHSA-2012:1181Moderate
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References & Sources

38
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