CVE-2010-2643

Severity: high (CVSS 7.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.0% 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-189

Description

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 products

RedHat Evince: 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+28)

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/2011-01/msg00006.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/42769
http://secunia.com/advisories/42821
http://secunia.com/advisories/42847
http://secunia.com/advisories/42872
http://secunia.com/advisories/43068
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2357
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0009.html

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