CVE-2007-0650

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-02-01 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

Makeindex: 2.14

References

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
http://secunia.com/advisories/26982

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