CVE-2007-0650 Information

Description

Buffer overflow in the open_sty function in mkind.c for makeindex 2.14 in teTeX might allow user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite files and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long filename. NOTE: other overflows exist but might not be exploitable such as a heap-based overflow in the check_idx function.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/26982 http://secunia.com/advisories/30168 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200709-17.xml http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-34.xml http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-13.xml http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:109 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23872 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1706 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=225491 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/32284 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1036