Vulnerability CVE-2007-0650
Published: 2007-02-01   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
Buffer overflow in the open_sty function in mkind.c for makeindex 2.14 in teTeX might allow user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite files and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long filename. NOTE: other overflows exist but might not be exploitable, such as a heap-based overflow in the check_idx function.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.8/10
6.4/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Makeindex -> Makeindex 

 References:
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1036
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=225491
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/32284
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1706
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23872
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:109
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-13.xml
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-34.xml
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200709-17.xml
http://secunia.com/advisories/30168
http://secunia.com/advisories/26982
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