CVE-2018-6639 — An out-of-bounds write (Remote Code Execution) issue was discovered in Design Sc

An out-of-bounds write (Remote Code Execution) issue was discovered in Design Science MathType 6.9c. A size used by memmove is read from the input file. This is fixed in 6.9d.

01What is this vulnerability?

An out-of-bounds write (Remote Code Execution) issue was discovered in Design Science MathType 6.9c. A size used by memmove is read from the input file. This is fixed in 6.9d.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2018-02-28T05:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T06:10:10.859Z

09References

• drive.google.com — https://drive.google.com/open?id=175_n6KhbOUlu9l0ySw-8QYk0oQbAaoZV
• www.dessci.com — http://www.dessci.com/en/dl/