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CVE-2011-5244: gnome evince Numeric Errors

CVSS: 6.8v2.0MediumModified
AliasesDEBIAN-CVE-2011-5244
Published 19-11-2012Last modified 07-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2011-5244 is a medium (CVSS 6.8) Numeric Errors vulnerability in gnome evince. EPSS estimates a 3.36% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88.5% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
28/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
6.8/10
010
Medium · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
3.36%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 1
DSA-2357-1

Timeline

  1. 19-11-2012
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 07-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Multiple off-by-one errors in the (1) token and (2) linetoken functions in backend/dvi/mdvi-lib/afmparse.c in t1lib, as used in teTeX 3.0.x, GNOME evince, and possibly other products, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a DVI file containing a crafted Adobe Font Metrics (AFM) file, different vulnerabilities than CVE-2010-2642 and CVE-2011-0433.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

3.36%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

89%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 3.36% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
3.36%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Debian1 product
  • evince< 2.32.0-1
Gnome1 product
Tetex1 product

3 vendors · 3 products

References

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