CVE-2010-0739 Information

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.

Reference

http://git.frugalware.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=frugalware-stable.git;a=blob;f=source/xapps-extra/tetex/texlive-CVE-2010-0739-int-overflow.patch http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041573.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-05/msg00002.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html http://secunia.com/advisories/39390 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-28.xml http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/39500 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-937-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=572941 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A11468