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critical 9.3

CVE-2012-6535 json

DjVuLibre before 3.5.25.3, as used in Evince, Sumatra PDF Reader, VuDroid, and other products, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary…

published 2013-12-02 12 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2012-6383

cvss
9.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.6%
EPSS 4.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 91%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

DjVuLibre before 3.5.25.3, as used in Evince, Sumatra PDF Reader, VuDroid, and other products, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted DjVu (aka .djv) file.

Patch / fix

  • djvulibre Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 3.5.25.3-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2012-6535

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2012-6535 updated cvss 5.1

djvulibre: DoS or arbitrary code execution via specially crafted DjVu file

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 djvulibre
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

4.64% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.