CVE-2010-2642 Information

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.

Reference

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 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 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0043 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 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-57