CVE-2007-5935

Summary

CVECVE-2007-5935
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2007-11-13 22:46:00 UTC
Updated2018-10-15 21:47:00 UTC
DescriptionStack-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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-119

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Tetex Tetex All All All All
Application Tetex Tetex All All All All
Application Tug Texlive 2007 All All All All
Application Tug Texlive 2007 All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[security-announce] SUSE Security Summary Report SUSE-SR:200?8:011 SUSE lists.opensuse.org
[security-announce] SUSE Security Summary Report SUSE-SR:2008:001 SUSE lists.opensuse.org
USN-554-1: teTeX and TeX Live vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
#447081 - dvips -z segfault with really long url on \href - Debian Bug report logs CONFIRM bugs.debian.org Exploit
Ubuntu update for tetex-bin and texlive-bin - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDKSA-2007:230 | Mandriva MANDRIVA www.mandriva.com
PTeX: Multiple vulnerabilities — Gentoo Linux Documentation GENTOO security.gentoo.org
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- CSTeX: Multiple vulnerabilities GENTOO security.gentoo.org
Gentoo update for ptex - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: tetex-3.0-40.3.fc7 FEDORA www.redhat.com
SUSE Update for Multiple Packages - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
SecurityFocus BUGTRAQ www.securityfocus.com
Webmail - OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com
Fedora update for tetex - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Repository / Oval Repository OVAL oval.cisecurity.org
rPath update for tetex - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- teTeX: Multiple vulnerabilities GENTOO security.gentoo.org
Gentoo update for tetex - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Advisories:rPSA-2007-0266 - rPath Wiki CONFIRM wiki.rpath.com
Mandriva update for tetex - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Bug 368591 – CVE-2007-5935 dvips -z buffer overflow with long href MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
teTeX Multiple Vulnerabilities - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
teTeX Buffer Overflows Let Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code and Unsafe Temporary Files Let Local Users Overwrite Files - SecurityTracker SECTRACK www.securitytracker.com
teTeX DVI File Parsing Multiple Vulnerabilities BID www.securityfocus.com
Gentoo Bug 198238 - app-text/tetex < 3.0_p1-r6 Multiple issues in dviljk and dvips (CVE-2007-{5935,5936,5937}) CONFIRM bugs.gentoo.org
issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1928 CONFIRM issues.rpath.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2010-05-07Mark J CoxRed Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2007-5935 This issue has been addressed in RHSA-2010:0399 and RHSA-2010:0401.
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