PT-2007-6870 · Tetex+1 · Tetex+1

Published 2007-11-13 · Updated 2018-10-15 · CVE-2007-5937

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions teTeX versions prior to the fixed version TeXlive versions prior to 2007

Description The issue is related to multiple buffer overflows in the dvi2xx.c file of the dviljk component. This could potentially allow user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code by providing a crafted DVI input file.

Recommendations For teTeX, update to a version that includes the fix for the buffer overflows in dvi2xx.c. For TeXlive, update to a version later than 2007 to resolve the issue.

Fix

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2007-5937

Affected Products

Tex Live

Tetex

References · 29

• http://secunia.com/advisories/28412 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30168 · Vendor Advisory
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-13.xml · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27672 · Vendor Advisory
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-26.xml · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00663.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27743 · Vendor Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/554-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27718 · Vendor Advisory
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-34.xml · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27967 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-05/msg00000.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00002.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:230 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-5937 · Security Note