6.8
CVSSv2

CVE-2010-1440

Published: 07/05/2010 Updated: 13/02/2023
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

Multiple integer overflows in dvipsk/dospecial.c in dvips in TeX Live 2009 and previous versions, and teTeX, allow remote malicious users 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.

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Vendor Advisories

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) ...
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: ...
Debian Bug report logs - #580669 texlive-bin: Fix arbitrary code execution via memory corruption 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 16:06:02 UTC Severity: ...