Security Advisory

CVE-2010-2642

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2011-01-07 18:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 02:39:37
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

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.