CVE-2007-5936 Information

Description

dvips in teTeX and TeXlive 2007 and earlier allows local users to obtain sensitive information and modify certain data by creating certain temporary files before they are processed by dviljk which can then be read or modified in place.

Reference

http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=135423 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198238 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00002.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-05/msg00000.html http://osvdb.org/42238 http://secunia.com/advisories/27672 http://secunia.com/advisories/27686 http://secunia.com/advisories/27718 http://secunia.com/advisories/27743 http://secunia.com/advisories/27967 http://secunia.com/advisories/28107 http://secunia.com/advisories/28412 http://secunia.com/advisories/30168 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-26.xml http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-34.xml http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-13.xml http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2007-0266 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:230 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487984/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26469 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019058 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3896 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=368611 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1928 https://usn.ubuntu.com/554-1/ https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00663.html