CVE-2010-1440

NameCVE-2010-1440
DescriptionMultiple 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs580668

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
texlive-bin (PTS)bullseye (security), bullseye2020.20200327.54578-7+deb11u1fixed
bookworm2022.20220321.62855-5.1+deb12u1fixed
trixie2024.20240313.70630+ds-2fixed
sid2024.20240313.70630+ds-3fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
texlive-binsourcelenny2007.dfsg.2-4+lenny3
texlive-binsource(unstable)2009-6low580668

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