CVE-2011-5326 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2011-5326?

CVE-2011-5326 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 13 May 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

imlib2 before 1.4.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and application crash) by drawing a 2x1 ellipse.

Weakness: CWE-189

Which versions are affected by CVE-2011-5326?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Enlightenment Imlib2.

How do I fix CVE-2011-5326?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2011-5326 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2011-5326 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2011-5326, GHSA-77x3-x4m9-mrmq, UBUNTU-CVE-2011-5326.