CVE-2007-5935 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2007-5935 at MITRE

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in hpc.c in dvips in teTeX and TeXlive 2007 and earlier allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a DVI file with a long href tag.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	6.8
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Medium
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 340472 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2008:001, published Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:00:00 +0000
SUSE-SR:2008:011, published Fri, 09 May 2008 16:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Jul 9 16:34:42 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:15:07 2025