CVE-2010-2642

Severity: high (CVSS 7.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 14.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-01-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

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.

Affected products

RedHat Evince: through 2.32; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+27)
T1Lib: 5.1.2
Tug Tetex: 3.0

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

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