CVE-2010-2642
HIGHEPSS 96th pctlDescription
Heap-based buffer overflow in the AFM font parser in the dvi-backend component in Evince 2.32 and earlier, teTeX 3.0, t1lib 5.1.2, and possibly other products allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted font in conjunction with a DVI file that is processed by the thumbnailer.
CVSS v2 Vector
No CVSS vector data available.
Exploit Intelligence
Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 96% of all known CVEs.
References
- http://git.gnome.org/browse/evince/commit/?id=d4139205b010ed06310d14284e63114e88ec6de2
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/052910.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/052995.html
- http://lists.mandriva.com/security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.php
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-04/msg00000.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1201.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42769
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42821
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42847
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42872
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2357
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:016
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:017
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:144
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0009.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45678
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024937
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1035-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0029
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0043
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0056
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0097
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0102
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0193
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0194
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666318
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-57
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