Vulnerability CVE-2009-2461
Published: 2009-07-14   Modified: 2012-02-13

Description:
mathtex.cgi in mathTeX, when downloaded before 20090713, does not securely create temporary files, which has unspecified impact and local attack vectors.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
High
mimeTeX and mathTeX buffer overflows and commandinjection
Andrea Barisani
17.07.2009

Type:

CWE-264

 (Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls)

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.2/10
10/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
Forkosh -> Mathtex 

 References:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/browse_thread/thread/5d56d3d744351578
http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2009-010.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/504919/100/0/threaded
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1875
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51797
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