CVE-2010-0829

MEDIUM 4.3CVE-2010-0829 · Published 07/05/2010 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2010-0829 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.3) vulnerability affecting dvipng (jan-ake larsson).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 4.5%, higher than 91.6% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
dvipng jan-ake_larsson	`= 1.11= 1.12`	No fix yet

Description

Multiple array index errors in set.c in dvipng 1.11 and 1.12, and teTeX, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a malformed DVI file.

References

lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041587.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-05/msg00002.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html
secunia.com/advisories/39914
debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2048
ubuntu.com/usn/USN-936-1
vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1219
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi · Patch
oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9718

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