CVE-2010-1440 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2010-1440

Multiple integer overflows in dvipsk/dospecial.c in dvips in TeX Live...

Vulnerability Description

Multiple integer overflows in dvipsk/dospecial.c in dvips in TeX Live 2009 and earlier, and teTeX, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a special command in a DVI file, related to the (1) predospecial and (2) bbdospecial functions, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-0739.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

tetex, tex live
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008

Timeline

Official Publish: May 7th, 2010
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.