CVE-2010-0739

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    CVE-2010-0739

    Published: 16 Apr 2010Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: Integer overflow in the predospecial function in dospecial.c in dvips in (1) TeX Live and (2) teTeX might allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted DVI file that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

    References: http://secunia.com/advisories/39390, http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-28.xml, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-937-1, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=572941, http://git.frugalware.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=frugalware-stable.git%3Ba=blob%3Bf=source/xapps-extra/tetex/texlive-CVE-2010-0739-int-overflow.patch, http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041573.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-05/msg00002.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/39500, https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11468

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High