CVE-2018-6638

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    CVE-2018-6638

    Published: 28 Feb 2018Last Modified: 10 Mar 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: , http://www.dessci.com/en/dl/, https://drive.google.com/open?id=1V-AA1InXBPhgJviabilttkaP4DYay9f6

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