CVE-2010-2642
HIGH · CVSS 7.6EPSS 14.3%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.6 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 14.3% (97th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2010-2646)
- Published
- January 7, 2011
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2010-2646 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- redhat / evince
- redhat / evince
- redhat / evince
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- redhat / evince
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- redhat / evince
- redhat / evince
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- redhat / evince
- redhat / evince
- redhat / evince
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- redhat / evince
- redhat / evince
- redhat / evince
- redhat / evince
- redhat / evince
- redhat / evince
- redhat / evince
- redhat / evince
- redhat / evince
- redhat / evince
- redhat / evince
- redhat / evince
- redhat / evince
- redhat / evince
- t1lib / t1lib
- tug / tetex
References
- http://git.gnome.org/browse/evince/commit/?id=d4139205b010ed06310d14284e63114e88ec6de2(Patch)
- 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(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42821(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42847(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42872
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2357
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:016
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:017
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:144
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0009.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45678
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024937
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1035-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0029(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0043(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0056
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0097
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0102
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0193
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0194
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666318(Patch)
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-57
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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