Vulnerability CVE-2010-1440
Published: 2010-05-07   Modified: 2012-02-13

Description:
Multiple integer overflows in dvipsk/dospecial.c in dvips in TeX Live 2009 and earlier, and teTeX, allow remote attackers 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.

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=586819
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-937-1
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-28.xml
http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10068
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
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