Vulnerability Report

CVE-2011-2975

Title: Umn Mapserver Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2011-2975

CWE Category CWE-399

Published Date Aug 01, 2011

Modified Date Apr 29, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 6.8 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.46%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2011-2975: Double free vulnerability in the msAddImageSymbol function in mapsymbol.c in MapServer before 6.0.1 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or have unspecified other impact via crafted mapfile data.

Impacted Vendors

umn 1

osgeo 1

university_of_minnesota 1

Reference Links

http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapserver-users/2011-July/069430.html http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/3939 http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapserver-users/2011-July/069430.html http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/3939

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.8

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2011-2975 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36092

View Code

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

August 01, 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:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.