Vulnerability Report

CVE-2010-2642

Title: Redhat Evince RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2010-2642.

CWE Category CWE-119

Published Date Jan 07, 2011

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.6 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

14.27%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2010-2642: 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.

Impacted Vendors

Reference Links

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 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

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.6

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2010-2642 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

January 07, 2011 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.