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CVE-2010-0827

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-0827 describes an integer overflow vulnerability in dvips, a component of TeX Live 2009 and earlier, as well as teTeX. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service (application crash) or potentially execute arbitrary code by supplying a specially crafted virtual font (VF) file alongside a DVI file. With a CVSS score of 6.8, this vulnerability has a medium attack complexity and could lead to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts if exploited. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2009CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:tug:tex_live:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1996CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:tug:tex_live:1996:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1998CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:tug:tex_live:1998:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1999CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:tug:tex_live:1999:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2000CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:tug:tex_live:2000:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.8MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.44%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0444 is in the 88th percentile among its peer group of 19,954 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: tetex-0:1.0.7-67.19
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: tetex-0:2.0.2-22.0.1.EL4.16
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2010-0827Moderate

texlive: Buffer overflow flaw by processing virtual font files

Mar 25, 2010

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2010-05/msg00002.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-201206-28.xml
security-tracker.debian.org / tracker/CVE-2010-0827
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10052
securityfocus.com / bid/39971
tug.org / svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/dvipsk/ChangeLog
tug.org / svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/dvipsk/ChangeLog
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-937-1