CVE-2010-2642

NameCVE-2010-2642
DescriptionHeap-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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-2357-1, DSA-2388-1
Debian Bugs609534

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
evince (PTS)bullseye3.38.2-1fixed
bookworm43.1-2fixed
sid, trixie46.3.1-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
evincesourcelenny2.22.2-4~lenny2DSA-2357-1
evincesourcesqueeze2.30.3-2+squeeze1
evincesource(unstable)3.0.2-1609534
t1libsourcelenny5.1.2-3+lenny1
t1libsourcesqueeze5.1.2-3+squeeze1
t1libsource(unstable)5.1.2-3.5

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