Vulnerability CVE-2010-0739
Published: 2010-04-16   Modified: 2012-02-13

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

Type:

CWE-189

 (Numeric Errors)

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
TUG -> Tetex 
TUG -> Tex live 

 References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=572941
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-937-1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/39500
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-28.xml
http://secunia.com/advisories/39390
http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11468
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-05/msg00002.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041573.html
http://git.frugalware.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=frugalware-stable.git;a=blob;f=source/xapps-extra/tetex/texlive-CVE-2010-0739-int-overflow.patch
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