CVE-2007-5936

Impact

dvips in teTeX and TeXlive 2007 and earlier allows local users to obtain sensitive information and modify certain data by creating certain temporary files before they are processed by dviljk, which can then be read or modified in place.

Affected products

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=135423
• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198238
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00002.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-05/msg00000.html
• http://osvdb.org/42238
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27672
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27686
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27718
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27743
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27967
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28107
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28412
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30168
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-26.xml
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-34.xml
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-13.xml
• http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2007-0266
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:230
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487984/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26469
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019058
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3896
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=368611
• https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1928
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/554-1/