CVE-2010-1440 Information

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.

Reference

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://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-28.xml http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-937-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=586819 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10068