texlive-bin — security advisory
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.
- Products
- texlive-bin
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 2009-6
- CVEs
- CVE-2010-1440
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 22:41 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2010-1440
texlive-bin
Fixed versions: 2009-6
texlive-bin
Fixed versions: 2009-6
texlive-bin
Fixed versions: 2009-6
Complete source record
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