CVE-2018-6638

moderate-risk
Published 2018-02-28

A stack-based buffer overflow (Remote Code Execution) issue was discovered in Design Science MathType 6.9c. This occurs in a function call in which the first argument is a corrupted offset value and the second argument is a stack buffer. This is fixed in 6.9d.

Do I need to act?

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6.6% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — moderate exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
9
CVSS 9.8/10 Critical
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (1)

Mathtype

Affected Vendors

Wiris

References (4)

Product http://www.dessci.com/en/dl/
Exploit https://drive.google.com/open?id=1V-AA1InXBPhgJviabilttkaP4DYay9f6
Product http://www.dessci.com/en/dl/
Exploit https://drive.google.com/open?id=1V-AA1InXBPhgJviabilttkaP4DYay9f6
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/ 100
moderate-risk
Severity 32/34 · Critical
Exploitability 9/34 · Low
Exposure 5/34 · Minimal