Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-6641 - Use After Free 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-416
critical

Summary

An Arbitrary Free (Remote Code Execution) issue was discovered in Design Science MathType 6.9c. Crafted input can overwrite a structure, leading to a function call with an invalid parameter, and a subsequent free of important data such as a function pointer or list pointer. This is fixed in 6.9d.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Wiris
1

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)