CVE-2010-0827 Information

Description

Integer overflow in dvips in TeX Live 2009 and earlier and teTeX allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted virtual font (VF) file associated with a DVI file.

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-05/msg00002.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-28.xml http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-0827 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/39971 http://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/dvipsk/ChangeLog?r1=18009&r2=18095 http://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/dvipsk/ChangeLog?view=log http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-937-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=572914 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10052