CVE-2011-2895

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-2895
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2011-2895.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2011-2895
Downstream
Related
Published
2011-08-19T17:55:03Z
Modified
2025-08-09T20:01:26Z
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

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Affected packages