Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-6638 - Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in Wiris Mathtype 6.9C

047910
CVSS 9.8 - CRITICAL
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
HIGH
network
low complexity
wiris
CWE-787
critical

Summary

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.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Wiris
1

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)