Integer overflow in the predospecial function in dospecial.c in dvips...

Vulnerability Description

Integer overflow in the predospecial function in dospecial.c in dvips in (1) TeX Live and (2) teTeX might allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted DVI file that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/39500
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-28.xml
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11468
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-05/msg00002.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041573.html
• http://git.frugalware.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=frugalware-stable.git%3Ba=blob%3Bf=source/xapps-extra/tetex/texlive-CVE-2010-0739-int-overflow.patch
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=572941
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-937-1
• http://secunia.com/advisories/39390