CVE-2010-0739

medium

Description

Integer overflow in the predospecial function in dospecial.c in dvips in (1) TeX Live and (2) teTeX might allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted DVI file that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=572941

http://secunia.com/advisories/39390

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-28.xml

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11468

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-937-1

Details

Published: 2010-04-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium