CVE-2011-5244: Gnome Evince

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 3.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Gnome Evince: affected versions not specified
• t1lib t1lib: any version
• Tetex Tetex: version 3.0 only

Published 2012-11-19. Last modified 2026-06-16.