6.8
CVSSv2

CVE-2010-0739

Published: 16/04/2010 Updated: 07/11/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.8 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
VMScore: 605
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

Integer overflow in the predospecial function in dospecial.c in dvips in (1) TeX Live and (2) teTeX might allow user-assisted remote malicious users 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.

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Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #580668 texlive-bin: Fix arbitrary code execution via integer overflow Package: texlive-bin; Maintainer for texlive-bin is Debian TeX Maintainers <debian-tex-maint@listsdebianorg>; Reported by: أحمد المحمودي <aelmahmoudy@sabilyorg> Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 16:03:01 UTC Severity: ...
It was discovered that TeX Live incorrectly handled certain long bib bibliography files If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted bib file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash This issue only affected Ubuntu 804 LTS, 904 and 910 (CVE-2009-1284) ...