Denial Of Service (DoS)

TeX Live is vulnerable to Denial of Service DoS. Two heap-based buffer overflow flaws were found in the way t1lib processed Adobe Font Metrics AFM files. If a specially-crafted font file was opened by a TeX Live utility, it could cause the utility to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

TeX Live is vulnerable to Denial of Service DoS. Two heap-based buffer overflow flaws were found in the way t1lib processed Adobe Font Metrics AFM files. If a specially-crafted font file was opened by a TeX Live utility, it could cause the utility to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code...

HTMLDOC -- buffer overflow issues when reading AFM files and parsing page sizes

Michael Sweet reports: HTMLDOC 1.8.28 fixes some known security issues and formatting bugs. Changes include: SECURITY: Fixed three buffer overflow issues when reading AFM files and parsing page sizes...

Fedora Update for t1lib FEDORA-2012-0289

Check for the Version of t1lib OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for t1lib FEDORA-2012-0289 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms ...

Medium: t1lib

Issue Overview: Two heap-based buffer overflow flaws were found in the way t1lib processed Adobe Font Metrics AFM files. If a specially-crafted font file was opened by an application linked against t1lib, it could cause the application to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: t1lib-5.1.2-9.fc15

T1lib is a rasterizer library for Adobe Type 1 Fonts. It supports rotation and transformation, kerning underlining and antialiasing. It does not depend on X11, but does provides some special functions for X11. AFM-files can be generated from Type 1 font files and font subsetting is possible...

[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: t1lib-5.1.2-9.fc16

T1lib is a rasterizer library for Adobe Type 1 Fonts. It supports rotation and transformation, kerning underlining and antialiasing. It does not depend on X11, but does provides some special functions for X11. AFM-files can be generated from Type 1 font files and font subsetting is possible...

[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: t1lib-5.1.1-3.fc7

T1lib is a rasterizer library for Adobe Type 1 Fonts. It supports rotation and transformation, kerning underlining and antialiasing. It does not depend on X11, but does provides some special functions for X11. AFM-files can be generated from Type 1 font files and font subsetting is possible...