CVE-2011-2895
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.
Published:Aug 10, 2011
Last Modified:Apr 11, 2025
EPS:Aug 19, 2011
EPSS Score:0.06091
CVSS Score:9.3
Affected Products
Vendor
Product
Action
Vendor
Freebsd
Product
Freebsd
Freebsd
Freebsd
Vendor
Freetype
Product
Freetype
Freetype
Freetype
Vendor
Netbsd
Product
Netbsd
Netbsd
Netbsd
Vendor
Openbsd
Product
Openbsd
Openbsd
Openbsd
Vendor
Redhat
Product
Enterprise Linux
Redhat
Enterprise Linux
Vendor
Redhat
Product
Rhel Eus
Redhat
Rhel Eus
Vendor
X
Product
Libxfont
X
Libxfont
Exploits
No exploit reference
Common Weakness Enumeration
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Related CVEs
References
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
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User Interaction
None
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Scope
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Confidentiality
None
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Integrity
None
Low
High
Availability
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