CVE-2011-1553: foolabs xpdf Resource Management Errors
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2011-1553 is a medium (CVSS 4.3) Resource Management Errors vulnerability in foolabs xpdf. EPSS estimates a 5.42% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92.6% of scored vulnerabilities.
Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 4Timeline
- 31-03-2011PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 06-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
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.
CVSS metrics
1 score · 1 source · 1 versionEPSS trend
Probability
5.42%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
93%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
0.00 pp
From 5.42% on 18-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Debian1 product
- xpdf< 3.02-9
Foolabs1 product
- xpdf0.5a | 0.7a | 0.91a | 0.91b | 0.91c | 0.92a | 0.92b | 0.92c | 0.92d | 0.92e | 0.93a | 0.93b | 0.93c | 1.00a | 3.0.1 | 3.02pl1 | 3.02pl2 | 3.02pl3 | 3.02pl4
Glyphandcog1 product
- xpdfreader≤ 3.02 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.80 | 0.90 | 0.91 | 0.92 | 0.93 | 1.00 | 1.01 | 2.00 | 2.01 | 2.02 | 2.03 | 3.00 | 3.01 | 3.02
T1lib1 product
- t1lib≤ 5.1.2 | 0.1:alpha | 0.2:beta | 0.3:beta | 0.4:beta | 0.5:beta | 0.6:beta | 0.7:beta | 0.8:beta | 0.9 | 0.9.1 | 0.9.2 | 1.0 | 1.0.1 | 1.1.0 | 1.1.1 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 1.3.1 | 5.0.0 | 5.0.1 | 5.0.2 | 5.1.0 | 5.1.1
4 vendors · 4 products
References
14 links- www.toucan-system.com/advisories/tssa-2011-01.txtX Refsource MISC
