CVE-2001-0906: Tetex

Medium severity, CVSS 6.2. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

teTeX filter before 1.0.7 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on temporary files that are produced when printing .dvi files using lpr.

Affected products

• Tetex Tetex: up to and including 1.0.7.7

Published 2001-06-22. Last modified 2026-06-16.