Vulnerability in Tetex
CVE-2007-5936
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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 3.6 (Low). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.004 (31.5th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 32nd percentile — 31.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi
- issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1928
- secunia.com/advisories/27672 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/27743 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-05/msg00000.html (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/28412 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/27686 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- usn.ubuntu.com/554-1/ (vendor-advisory)
- osvdb.org/42238 (vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/26469 (vdb-entry)