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CVE-2010-1440 Details

Description

Multiple integer overflows in dvipsk/dospecial.c in dvips in TeX Live 2009 and earlier, and teTeX, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a special command in a DVI file, related to the (1) predospecial and (2) bbdospecial functions, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-0739.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

No CVSS 3.x data is available for this CVE.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041573.html	CVE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-05/msg00002.html	CVE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html	CVE
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=586819	CVE
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-28.xml	CVE
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10068	CVE
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-937-1	CVE
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041573.html	[email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-05/msg00002.html	[email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html	[email protected]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=586819	[email protected]
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-28.xml	[email protected]
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10068	[email protected]
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-937-1	[email protected]

see all 14 references

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
CWE-189	Numeric Errors	[email protected]

Affected Products

Product	Versions
tug tetex	All versions
CPE cpe:2.3:a:tug:tetex:::::::: Remediation No remediation found in references.
tug tex live	<= 2009 1996 1998 1999 2000
CPE cpe:2.3:a:tug:tex_live:::::::: cpe:2.3:a:tug:tex_live:1996:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:tug:tex_live:1998:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:tug:tex_live:1999:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:tug:tex_live:2000:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:tug:tex_live:2001:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:tug:tex_live:2002:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:tug:tex_live:2003:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:tug:tex_live:2004:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:tug:tex_live:2005:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:tug:tex_live:2007:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:tug:tex_live:2008:::::::* Remediation No remediation found in references.

Change History

8 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Jun 16, 2026	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Apr 29, 2026	Status Change	[email protected]
Nov 21, 2024	CVE Modified	CVE
May 14, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Feb 13, 2023	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Feb 2, 2023	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Sep 19, 2017	CVE Modified	[email protected]
May 10, 2010	Initial Analysis	[email protected]