Input validation error in Evince - CVE-2010-2643

 

Input validation error in Evince - CVE-2010-2643

Published: January 7, 2011 / Updated: August 4, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU33874
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 7.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2010-2643
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.

Integer overflow in the TFM font parser in the dvi-backend component in Evince 2.32 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted font in conjunction with a DVI file that is processed by the thumbnailer.


Affected software

Evince
Gentoo Linux
evince (Alpine package)

How to mitigate CVE-2010-2643

Install update from vendor's website.

evince (Alpine package) - update to 2.32.0-r8

External References

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