CVE-2010-4743 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2010-4743?

CVE-2010-4743 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 18 Feb 2011. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-787

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-4743?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Moinejf Abcm2ps.

How do I fix CVE-2010-4743?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2010-4743 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-4743 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2010-4743, GHSA-hh8f-g344-97jg.