CVE-2011-2895 (GCVE-0-2011-2895)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2011-08-19 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 23:15
VLAI?
Summary
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.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
https://support.apple.com/HT205635 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-11… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1191-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/0… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725760 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/45544 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://support.apple.com/HT205637 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5130 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLE
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49124 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://secunia.com/advisories/45599 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-11… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://securitytracker.com/id?1025920 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLE
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-announ… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://secunia.com/advisories/46127 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/45986 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-11… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-18… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin… x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLE
http://secunia.com/advisories/45568 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-announ… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://support.apple.com/HT205641 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisor… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_NETBSD
https://support.apple.com/HT205640 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXfont/com… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/48951 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLE
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5281 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLE
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2293 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=727624 x_refsource_CONFIRM
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          "name": "APPLE-SA-2012-05-09-1",
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            "x_refsource_APPLE"
          ],
          "url": "http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/May/msg00001.html"
        },
        {
          "name": "DSA-2293",
          "tags": [
            "vendor-advisory",
            "x_refsource_DEBIAN"
          ],
          "url": "http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2293"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
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          "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=727624"
        }
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    "assignerShortName": "redhat",
    "cveId": "CVE-2011-2895",
    "datePublished": "2011-08-19T17:00:00.000Z",
    "dateReserved": "2011-07-27T00:00:00.000Z",
    "dateUpdated": "2024-08-06T23:15:31.486Z",
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}


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  • Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
  • Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
  • Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
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  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
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  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.



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