MathType 6.9c Stack-Based Buffer Overflow (Remote Code Execution) Vulnerability

CVE-2018-6638 · CRITICAL Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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.

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