CVE-2010-0739: Tug Tetex

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 4.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

  • Tug Tetex: any version
  • Tug Tex Live: any version

Published 2010-04-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.