CVE-2010-1440

Summary

CVECVE-2010-1440
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2010-05-07 18:24:00 UTC
Updated2023-02-13 04:17:00 UTC
DescriptionMultiple 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-189

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Tug Tetex All All All All
Application Tug Tetex All All All All
Application Tug Tex Live 1996 All All All
Application Tug Tex Live 1998 All All All
Application Tug Tex Live 1999 All All All
Application Tug Tex Live 2000 All All All
Application Tug Tex Live 2001 All All All
Application Tug Tex Live 2002 All All All
Application Tug Tex Live 2003 All All All
Application Tug Tex Live 2004 All All All
Application Tug Tex Live 2005 All All All
Application Tug Tex Live 2007 All All All
Application Tug Tex Live 2008 All All All
Application Tug Tex Live 1996 All All All
Application Tug Tex Live 1998 All All All
Application Tug Tex Live 1999 All All All
Application Tug Tex Live 2000 All All All
Application Tug Tex Live 2001 All All All
Application Tug Tex Live 2002 All All All
Application Tug Tex Live 2003 All All All
Application Tug Tex Live 2004 All All All
Application Tug Tex Live 2005 All All All
Application Tug Tex Live 2007 All All All
Application Tug Tex Live 2008 All All All
Application Tug Tex Live All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Red Hat Customer Portal MISC access.redhat.com
Repository / Oval Repository OVAL oval.cisecurity.org
Bug 586819 – CVE-2010-1440 tetex, texlive: Integer overflow by processing special commands CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 11 Update: texlive-2007-47.fc11 FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[security-announce] SUSE Security Summary Report: SUSE-SR:2010:012 SUSE lists.opensuse.org
USN-937-1: TeX Live vulnerabilities | Ubuntu UBUNTU www.ubuntu.com
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- TeX Live: Multiple vulnerabilities GENTOO security.gentoo.org
access.redhat.com | CVE-2010-1440 MISC access.redhat.com
Red Hat Customer Portal MISC access.redhat.com
[security-announce] SUSE Security Summary Report: SUSE-SR:2010:013 SUSE lists.opensuse.org
Red Hat Customer Portal MISC access.redhat.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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