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TITLE:
Tex Live dvipng Array Indexing Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA39648

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/39648/

DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Tex Live, which can
potentially be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's
system.

The vulnerabilities are caused due to array indexing errors within
the dvipng utility, which can be exploited to cause a memory
corruption by e.g. tricking a user into processing specially crafted
dvi files using the utility.

SOLUTION:
Fixed in the SVN repository.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Dan Rosenberg

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Ubuntu bug #537638:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dvipng/+bug/537638

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