CVE-2023-46048

medium

Description

Tex Live 944e257 has a NULL pointer dereference in texk/web2c/pdftexdir/writet1.c. NOTE: this is disputed because it should be categorized as a usability problem.

References

https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2023-August/049400.html

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jan/65

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/176819/tex-live-944e257-Null-Pointer.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-03-27

Updated: 2025-11-04

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.2

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H