CVE-2010-1440
Multiple integer overflows in dvipsk/dospecial.c in dvips in TeX Live 2009 and earlier, and teTeX, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a special command in a DVI file, related to…
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Lower severity and a low EPSS score (3.43%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
Multiple integer overflows in dvipsk/dospecial.c in dvips in TeX Live 2009 and earlier, and teTeX, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a special command in a DVI file, related to the (1) predospecial and (2) bbdospecial functions, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-0739.
- CVSS 2.0
- 6.8 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- EPSS
- 3.43% probability · 88th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-189
- Affected
- tug/tetex · tug/tex live
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041573.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-05/msg00002.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-28.xml
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-937-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=586819
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10068
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041573.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-05/msg00002.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-28.xml
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-937-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=586819
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10068
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.