Out-of-Bounds Affecting texlive-bin package, versions <2007-13
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EPSS
1.33% (87th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-TEXLIVEBIN-525563
- published 13 Nov 2007
- disclosed 13 Nov 2007
Introduced: 13 Nov 2007
CVE-2007-5937 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:11 texlive-bin to version 2007-13 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.
Multiple buffer overflows in dvi2xx.c in dviljk in teTeX and TeXlive 2007 and earlier might allow user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted DVI input file.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-5937
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487984/100/0/threaded
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198238
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1928
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2007-0266
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00663.html
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-26.xml
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-34.xml
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-13.xml
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=135423
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00002.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-05/msg00000.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=368641
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27672
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27686
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27718
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27743
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27967
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28107
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28412
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30168
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26469
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019058
- http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-554-1
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/554-1/
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3896
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:230
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