CVE-2010-4743

MEDIUM 6.8CVE-2010-4743 · Published 18/02/2011 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2010-4743 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.8) vulnerability affecting abcm2ps (moinejf).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 3.2%, higher than 88.3% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 5.9.13 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
abcm2ps moinejf	`< 5.9.13`	`5.9.13`

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the getarena function in abc2ps.c in abcm2ps before 5.9.13 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted ABC file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-3441. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

References

bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi · Issue Tracking
lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/054015.html · Third Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/054424.html · Third Party Advisory
moinejf.free.fr/abcm2ps-5.txt · Broken Link
secunia.com/advisories/40033 · Third Party Advisory
secunia.com/advisories/43338 · Third Party Advisory
vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0390 · Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi · Issue Tracking

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

abcm2ps

moinejf

< 5.9.13

5.9.13

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