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CVE-2018-6641

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-02-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-416

Description

An Arbitrary Free (Remote Code Execution) issue was discovered in Design Science MathType 6.9c. Crafted input can overwrite a structure, leading to a function call with an invalid parameter, and a subsequent free of important data such as a function pointer or list pointer. This is fixed in 6.9d.

Affected products

• Wiris Mathtype: 6.9c

References

• http://www.dessci.com/en/dl/
• https://drive.google.com/open?id=1qrHKzDA1daHh0mM2T8FRybL8we-mHRW9
• http://www.dessci.com/en/dl/
• https://drive.google.com/open?id=1qrHKzDA1daHh0mM2T8FRybL8we-mHRW9

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