CVE-2010-0739

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-04-16 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

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.

Affected products

Tug Tetex: all versions
Tug Tex Live: all versions

References

http://git.frugalware.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=frugalware-stable.git%3Ba=blob%3Bf=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/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11468
http://git.frugalware.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=frugalware-stable.git%3Ba=blob%3Bf=source/xapps-extra/tetex/texlive-CVE-2010-0739-int-overflow.patch
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041573.html

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