CVE-2010-1440: Integer Overflow
First published: Wed Apr 28 2010(Updated: )
An integer overflow was found in the way TeX text formatting system processed special commands. If a user was tricked into processing a specially-crafted typesetter-independent .dvi (DeVice Independent) file, it could lead to dvips executable crash or, potentially, to arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user running dvips. Different vulnerability than <a href="https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-0739">CVE-2010-0739</a>.
Credit: secalert@redhat.com
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Tug Tex Live | =2007 | |
| Tug Tetex | ||
| Tug Tex Live | =2008 | |
| Tug Tex Live | =2004 | |
| Tug Tex Live | <=2009 | |
| Tug Tex Live | =2002 | |
| Tug Tex Live | =1996 | |
| Tug Tex Live | =2001 | |
| Tug Tex Live | =1999 | |
| Tug Tex Live | =2005 | |
| Tug Tex Live | =1998 | |
| Tug Tex Live | =2000 | |
| Tug Tex Live | =2003 | |
| redhat/tetex | <0:3.0-33.8.el5_5.5 | 0:3.0-33.8.el5_5.5 |
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Reference Links
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=586819
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-937-1
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041573.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-05/msg00002.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-28.xml
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10068
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-0739
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-1440
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/attachment.cgi?id=409893&action=diff
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/attachment.cgi?id=409893&action=edit
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/show_bug.cgi?id=586819#c3
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/attachment.cgi?id=410146
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/attachment.cgi?id=410146&action=edit
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/attachment.cgi?id=410148
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/attachment.cgi?id=410148&action=edit
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0399.html
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0400.html
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0401.html
- http://www.tug.org/svn/texlive?view=revision&revision=18095
- http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/texlive-2007-47.fc11
- http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/texlive-2007-48.fc12
- http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/texlive-2007-51.fc13
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-1440 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-1440
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010:0401
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010:0399
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010:0400
- https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2010-1440.json
Parent vulnerabilities
(Appears in the following advisories)
- collector/nvd-historical
- collector/nvd-index
- agent/type
- agent/softwarecombine
- agent/first-publish-date
- agent/last-modified-date
- collector/redhat-bugzilla
- source/Red Hat
- alias/CVE-2010-1440
- collector/redhat-cve
- agent/software-canonical-lookup
- agent/severity
- agent/weakness
- agent/references
- agent/tags
- agent/description
- agent/event
- agent/author
- collector/mitre-cve
- source/MITRE
- vendor/tug
- canonical/tug tex live
- version/tug tex live/2007
- canonical/tug tetex
- version/tug tex live/2008
- version/tug tex live/2004
- version/tug tex live/2009
- version/tug tex live/2002
- version/tug tex live/1996
- version/tug tex live/2001
- version/tug tex live/1999
- version/tug tex live/2005
- version/tug tex live/1998
- version/tug tex live/2000
- version/tug tex live/2003
- package-manager/redhat