CVE-2011-2975

medium
Published 2011-08-01 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.8

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
55%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-36092 dos windows verified
rouault ยท 2011-08-30

MapServer 6.0 - '.Map' File Double-Free Remote Denial of Service

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OS impact

debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 6.0.1-1
sid Fixed 6.0.1-1
forky Fixed 6.0.1-1
bullseye Fixed 6.0.1-1
bookworm Fixed 6.0.1-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
osgeomapserver{"endIncluding":"6.0.0"}
osgeomapserver4.2.0
osgeomapserver4.4.0
osgeomapserver4.6.0
osgeomapserver4.8.0
osgeomapserver4.10.0
osgeomapserver4.10.1
osgeomapserver4.10.2
osgeomapserver4.10.3
osgeomapserver4.10.4
osgeomapserver4.10.5
osgeomapserver5.0.0
osgeomapserver5.2.0
osgeomapserver5.2.1
osgeomapserver5.4.0
osgeomapserver5.4.1
osgeomapserver5.4.2
osgeomapserver5.6.0
osgeomapserver5.6.1
osgeomapserver5.6.3
umnmapserver4.10.7
umnmapserver5.2.2
umnmapserver5.2.3
umnmapserver5.6.4
umnmapserver5.6.5
umnmapserver5.6.6
umnmapserver5.6.7
umnmapserver6.0.0

References

CWEs

CWE-399

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.