Vulnerability CVE-2010-0827
Published: 2010-05-07   Modified: 2012-02-13

Description:
Integer overflow in dvips in TeX Live 2009 and earlier, and teTeX, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted virtual font (VF) file associated with a DVI file.

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=572914
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-937-1
http://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/dvipsk/ChangeLog?view=log
http://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/dvipsk/ChangeLog?r1=18009&r2=18095
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/39971
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-28.xml
http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-0827
http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10052
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-05/msg00002.html
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