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CVE-2007-5936 Detail

Description

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.


Metrics

 
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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST CVSS score
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Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (05/06/2010)

Not vulnerable. teTeX is packaged without the dviljk binary in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, making it impossible to exploit this flaw. We are however including this fix in RHSA-2010:0399, RHSA-2010:0400, and RHSA-2010:0401 in the event the binary is shipped in the future.

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=135423 CVE, MITRE
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198238 CVE, MITRE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00002.html CVE, MITRE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-05/msg00000.html CVE, MITRE
http://osvdb.org/42238 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/27672 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/27686 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/27718 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/27743 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/27967 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/28107 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/28412 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/30168 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-26.xml CVE, MITRE
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-34.xml CVE, MITRE
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-13.xml CVE, MITRE
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2007-0266 CVE, MITRE
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:230 CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487984/100/0/threaded CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26469 CVE, MITRE
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019058 CVE, MITRE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3896 CVE, MITRE
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=368611 CVE, MITRE
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1928 CVE, MITRE
https://usn.ubuntu.com/554-1/ CVE, MITRE
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00663.html CVE, MITRE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2007-5936
NVD Published Date:
11/13/2007
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
MITRE