CVE-2007-5936

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Summary

CVECVE-2007-5936
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2007-11-13 22:46:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
Descriptiondvips in teTeX and TeXlive 2007 and earlier allows local users to obtain sensitive information and modify certain data by creating certain temporary files before they are processed by dviljk, which can then be read or modified in place.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 3.6 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Problem Types: CWE-264 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
None

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

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

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
teTeX Buffer Overflows Let Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code and Unsafe Temporary Files Let Local Users Overwrite Files - SecurityTracker af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securitytracker.com
teTeX Multiple Vulnerabilities - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Advisories:rPSA-2007-0266 - rPath Wiki af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 wiki.rpath.com
Fedora update for tetex - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
osvdb.org/42238 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 osvdb.org
Gentoo update for ptex - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
teTeX DVI File Parsing Multiple Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- teTeX: Multiple vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDKSA-2007:230 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
SUSE Update for Multiple Packages - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Webmail - OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
Gentoo Bug 198238 - app-text/tetex < 3.0_p1-r6 Multiple issues in dviljk and dvips (CVE-2007-{5935,5936,5937}) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.gentoo.org
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- CSTeX: Multiple vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org
[security-announce] SUSE Security Summary Report SUSE-SR:2008:001 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
USN-554-1: teTeX and TeX Live vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 usn.ubuntu.com
[security-announce] SUSE Security Summary Report SUSE-SR:200?8:011 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.gentoo.org
rPath update for tetex - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Gentoo update for tetex - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Bug 368611 – CVE-2007-5936 dviljk uses insecure temporary file af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: tetex-3.0-40.3.fc7 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
Mandriva update for tetex - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Ubuntu update for tetex-bin and texlive-bin - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
PTeX: Multiple vulnerabilities — Gentoo Linux Documentation af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org
issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1928 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 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 Hat2010-05-06Mark J CoxNot vulnerable. teTeX is packaged without the dviljk binary in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, making it impossible to exploit this flaw. We are however including this fix in RHSA-2010:0399, RHSA-2010:0400, and RHSA-2010:0401 in the event the binary is shipped in the future.
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