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CVE-2010-0827

Integer overflow in dvips in TeX Live 2009 and earlier, and teTeX, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service

Integer overflow in dvips in TeX Live 2009 and earlier, and teTeX, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted virtual font (VF) file associated with a DVI file.

MEDIUM · CVSS 6.8 EPSS 0.04513
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Affected Products & Versions

3
tug tex live<= 2009
tug tex liveall versions
tug tetexall versions
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Scoring & Timeline

6.8
MEDIUM · CVSS v2 (legacy) · security@ubuntu.com
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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:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Published to NVD07 May 2010 · 06:24 PM
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Vendor Advisories

3
usnUSN-937-1
rhsaRHSA-2010:0401Moderate
rhsaRHSA-2010:0399Moderate
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References & Sources

10
Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-05/msg00002.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html
http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-0827
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-28.xml
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/39971
http://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/dvipsk/ChangeLog?r1=18009&r2=18095
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