Numeric Errors Affecting texlive-bin package, versions <2009-6
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- published 7 May 2010
- disclosed 7 May 2010
Introduced: 7 May 2010
CVE-2010-1440 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:11 texlive-bin to version 2009-6 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 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.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-1440
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041573.html
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-28.xml
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-05/msg00002.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10068
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=586819
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-937-1
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010:0399
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010:0400
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010:0401
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-1440