CVE-2007-5935

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-11-13 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in hpc.c in dvips in teTeX and TeXlive 2007 and earlier allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a DVI file with a long href tag.

Affected products

Tetex: all versions
Tug Texlive 2007: all versions

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=447081
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://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

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