The fbgs framebuffer Postscript/PDF viewer in fbi before 2.01 has a typo that prevents a filter from working correctly, which allows…

Description

The fbgs framebuffer Postscript/PDF viewer in fbi before 2.01 has a typo that prevents a filter from working correctly, which allows user-assisted attackers to bypass the filter and execute malicious Postscript commands.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

1.8% · top 22% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.1.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (10)

• GLSA-200608-22 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• 19131 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• ADV-2006-2982 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• 21599 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 21459 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• SUSE-SR:2006:019 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• fbida-fbgs-typo-security-bypass(28038) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• DSA-1124 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• 21169 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 21191 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 18:16 UTC.