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)jessie, jessie (lts)2014.20140926.35254-6+deb8u1fixed
stretch (security)2016.20160513.41080.dfsg-2+deb9u1fixed
stretch (lts), stretch2016.20160513.41080.dfsg-2+deb9u2fixed
buster, buster (lts)2018.20181218.49446-1+deb10u3fixed
buster (security)2018.20181218.49446-1+deb10u2fixed
bullseye2020.20200327.54578-7+deb11u1fixed
bullseye (security)2020.20200327.54578-7+deb11u2fixed
bookworm2022.20220321.62855-5.1+deb12u1fixed
sid, trixie2024.20240313.70630+ds-5fixed

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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