CVE-2010-0739
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.8EPSS 4.9%EU EUVD
Integer overflow in the predospecial function in dospecial.c in dvips in (1) TeX Live and (2) teTeX might allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted DVI file that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-189
- EPSS score
- 4.9% (92th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2010-0765)
- Published
- April 16, 2010
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2010-0765 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- tug / tetex
- tug / tex live
References
- http://git.frugalware.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=frugalware-stable.git%3Ba=blob%3Bf=source/xapps-extra/tetex/texlive-CVE-2010-0739-int-overflow.patch
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041573.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-05/msg00002.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/39390(Vendor Advisory)
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-28.xml
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/39500
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-937-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=572941
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11468
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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