Out-of-Bounds Affecting texlive-bin package, versions <2007.dfsg.1-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Snyk's Security Team recommends NVD's CVSS assessment

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    1.49% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-TEXLIVEBIN-517468
  • published 13 Nov 2007
  • disclosed 13 Nov 2007

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 texlive-bin to version 2007.dfsg.1-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream texlive-bin package and not the texlive-bin package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

Stack-based buffer overflow in hpc.c in dvips in teTeX and TeXlive 2007 and earlier allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a DVI file with a long href tag.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

Recommended
6.3 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    Required
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    Low
  • Availability (A)
    Low