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CVE-2023-51885

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2024-01-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-120

Description

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Mathtex v.1.05 and before allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via the length of the LaTeX string component.

Affected products

• Ctan Mathtex: through 1.05

References

• https://blog.yulun.ac.cn/posts/2023/fuzzing-mathtex/
• https://blog.yulun.ac.cn/posts/2023/fuzzing-mathtex/

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