PT-2018-17688 · Design Science · Mathtype

Published 2018-02-28 · Updated 2021-05-27 · CVE-2018-6638

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

9.8

Critical

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Design Science MathType version 6.9c

Description A stack-based buffer overflow issue was discovered, allowing for remote code execution. This occurs due to a function call with a corrupted offset value as the first argument and a stack buffer as the second argument.

Recommendations For version 6.9c, update to version 6.9d to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Memory Corruption

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-787

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-6638

Affected Products

Mathtype

References · 4

• 🔥 https://drive.google.com/open?id=1V-AA1InXBPhgJviabilttkaP4DYay9f6 · Exploit
• http://dessci.com/en/dl · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6638 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-6638 · Vendor Advisory