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CVE-2010-2642

Public on 2011-01-07
Modified on 2014-09-14
Description

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.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
5.1
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 t1lib 2012-02-02 14:26 ALAS-2012-40
Amazon Linux 1 texlive 2012-03-04 16:08 ALAS-2012-48

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 5.1 AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD CVSSv2 7.6 AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C