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CVE-2007-0650
CVE information
Published
Last Modified
CVSSv2.0 Severity
Impact Analysis
Description
Buffer overflow in the open_sty function in mkind.c for makeindex 2.14 in teTeX might allow user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite files and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long filename. NOTE: other overflows exist but might not be exploitable, such as a heap-based overflow in the check_idx function..
CVSSv2.0 Score
- Severity
- Medium
- Base Score
- 6.8/10
- Exploit Score
- 8.6/10
- Access Vector
- Network
- Access Complexity
- Medium
- Authentication Required
- None
- Impact Score
- 6.4/10
- Confidentiality Impact
- Partial
- Availability Impact
- Partial
- Integrity Impact
- Partial
Products Affected
CPE | Affected | Vulnerable | Excluding | Edit |
---|---|---|---|---|
cpe:2.3:a:makeindex:makeindex:2.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - |
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=225491
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23872
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1036
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200709-17.xml
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-34.xml
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:109
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26982
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-13.xml
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30168
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1706
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/32284