CVE-2010-1440

    Dashboard / Vulnerabilities / CVE-2010-1440

    CVE-2010-1440

    Published: 7 May 2010Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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: 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=586819, 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, https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10068

    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