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CVE-2007-5936

dvips in teTeX and TeXlive 2007 and earlier allows local users to obtain sensitive information and modify certain data b

dvips 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.

LOW · CVSS 3.6 EPSS 0.00096

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No active-exploitation, high-EPSS, or public-exploit signals - routine patching cadence

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Affected Products & Versions

2

tetexall versions

tug texlive 2007all versions

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Scoring & Timeline

3.6

LOW · CVSS v2 (legacy) · cve@mitre.org

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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.

v2 Vector

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

Published to NVD13 Nov 2007 · 10:46 PM

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Vendor Advisories

1

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References & Sources

26

Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.

http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=135423

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198238

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00002.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-05/msg00000.html

http://osvdb.org/42238

http://secunia.com/advisories/27672Vendor Advisory

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http://secunia.com/advisories/27686Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/27718Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/27743Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/27967Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/28107Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/28412Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/30168Vendor Advisory

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-26.xml

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-34.xml

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-13.xml

http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2007-0266

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:230

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487984/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26469

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019058

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3896

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=368611

https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1928

https://usn.ubuntu.com/554-1/

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00663.html

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