Bug 666314 (CVE-2010-2641)

Summary:	CVE-2010-2641 evince: Array index errror in DVI file VF font parser
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	mkasik, security-response-team
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OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	666323, 666324, 667573, 680005
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2010-12-30 05:01:16 UTC

An array index error in the parser for VF font files, which is used for
rendering DVI files, in the GNOME evince document viewer can lead to local or
remote code execution. Due to insufficient bounds checks when writing to
elements in an array, it's possible to overwrite the address of a function
pointer, leading to possible arbitrary code execution.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2010-2641 to
this issue.

The vulnerability is present in the code that handles loading of fonts used by
DVI files.To exploit you need two files, a DVI file and the malicious font.
The vulnerability is triggered not only by opening the document in evince, but
also by browsing to a folder which contains the malicious files, where evince
thumbnailer will load the malicious file to generate a thumbnail for it.

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Evince development team for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Jon Larimer of IBM X-Force as the original reporter.

Comment 4 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2011-01-06 02:51:44 UTC

Public via:
http://git.gnome.org/browse/evince/commit/?id=d4139205b010ed06310d14284e63114e88ec6de2

Comment 5 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2011-01-06 03:00:33 UTC

Created evince tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 667573]

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2011-01-06 18:28:23 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2011:0009 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0009.html

Comment 8 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2011-01-12 04:02:59 UTC

Statement:

This issue did not affect the versions of evince as shipped with Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5.