CVE-2010-0827

N/A Unknown

Published: May 07, 2010 Modified: April 29, 2026

Description

Integer overflow in dvips in TeX Live 2009 and earlier, and teTeX, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted virtual font (VF) file associated with a DVI file.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-05/msg00002.html

Source: security@ubuntu.com

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html

Source: security@ubuntu.com

http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-0827

Source: security@ubuntu.com

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-28.xml

Source: security@ubuntu.com

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/39971

Source: security@ubuntu.com

http://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/dvipsk/ChangeLog?r1=18009&r2=18095

Source: security@ubuntu.com

http://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/dvipsk/ChangeLog?view=log

Source: security@ubuntu.com

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-937-1

Source: security@ubuntu.com

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=572914

Source: security@ubuntu.com

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10052

Source: security@ubuntu.com

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-05/msg00002.html