CVE-2010-4743

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-02-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-787

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the getarena function in abc2ps.c in abcm2ps before 5.9.13 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted ABC file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-3441. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 13, 14
moinejf abcm2ps: before 5.9.13 — fixed in 5.9.13

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: moinejf abcm2ps 5.9.13. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=577014
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/054015.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/054424.html
http://moinejf.free.fr/abcm2ps-5.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/40033
http://secunia.com/advisories/43338
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0390
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=600729
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=577014
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/054015.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/054424.html
http://moinejf.free.fr/abcm2ps-5.txt

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