Unscored severity · published Aug 19, 2011
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…
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CVSS
8.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)8.4% · higher than 95% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
FR
Freebsd · Freebsd
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
FR
Freetype · Freetype
2.1.9 · source: NVD
LI
Libxfont · X
through 1.4.3; 1.2.0; 1.2.1; 1.2.2; 1.2.3; 1.2.4; +13 more · source: NVD
NE
Netbsd · Netbsd
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
OP
Openbsd · Openbsd
through 3.7; 2.0; 2.1; 2.2; 2.3; 2.4; +12 more · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-2895
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-2895
Patch
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXfont/commit/?id=d11ee5886e9d9ec610051a206b135a4cdc1e09a0
ftp.netbsd.org
http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2011-007.txt.asc
lists.apple.com
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Feb/msg00000.html
lists.apple.com
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/May/msg00001.html
lists.apple.com
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Dec/msg00000.html
lists.apple.com
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Dec/msg00001.html
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