Vulnerability record · CVE-2011-0433 · published 19 November 2012

CVE-2011-0433: Gnome evince memory buffer overflow vulnerability

Gnome · Evince

Heap-based buffer overflow in the linetoken function in afmparse.c in t1lib, as used in teTeX 3.0.x, GNOME evince, and possibly other products, allows 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, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-2642.

6.8 CVSS 2.0 Medium EPSS 4.2% · top 9.4% CWE-119 · Memory buffer overflow

6.8CVSS 2.0 base score

4.2%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days

NoNot in CISA KEV

3Affected product versions listed by NVD

14References

16 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

3 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

Evince Gnome TT1lib T1lib

Tetex Tetex

References

Link	Tags
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1201.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/48985
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:144
http://xorl.wordpress.com/2011/02/20/cve-2011-0433-evince-linetoken-buffer-overflow/
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=640923
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=679732
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-57
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1201.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/48985
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:144
http://xorl.wordpress.com/2011/02/20/cve-2011-0433-evince-linetoken-buffer-overflow/
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=640923
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=679732
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-57

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2011-0433), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-28). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.