CVE-2010-2642: Red Hat Evince

High severity, CVSS 7.6. EPSS: 14.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Red Hat Evince: up to and including 2.32; version 0.1 only; version 0.2 only; version 0.3 only; version 0.4 only; version 0.5 only; …
• t1lib t1lib: version 5.1.2 only
• Tug Tetex: version 3.0 only

Published 2011-01-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.