Vulnerability Report

CVE-2011-1553

Title: T1Lib Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2011-1553.

CWE Category CWE-399

Published Date Mar 31, 2011

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

5.42%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2011-1553: Use-after-free vulnerability in t1lib 5.1.2 and earlier, as used in Xpdf before 3.02pl6, teTeX, and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a PDF document containing a crafted Type 1 font that triggers an invalid memory write, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-0764.

Impacted Vendors

Reference Links

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1201.html http://secunia.com/advisories/43823 http://secunia.com/advisories/48985 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8171 http://securitytracker.com/id?1025266 http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/376500 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/MAPG-8ECL8X http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:144 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/517205/100/0/threaded http://www.toucan-system.com/advisories/tssa-2011-01.txt http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0728 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-57 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1201.html http://secunia.com/advisories/43823 http://secunia.com/advisories/48985 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8171 http://securitytracker.com/id?1025266 http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/376500 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/MAPG-8ECL8X http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:144 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/517205/100/0/threaded http://www.toucan-system.com/advisories/tssa-2011-01.txt http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0728 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-57

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2011-1553 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

March 31, 2011 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


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

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.