Bug 368591 (CVE-2007-5935)

Summary: CVE-2007-5935 dvips -z buffer overflow with long href
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Priority: low    
Version: unspecifiedCC: jlieskov, jnovy
Target Milestone: ---Keywords: Reopened, Security
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=447081
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Fixed In Version: 3.0-40.3.fc7 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2010-05-07 08:12:39 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 379831, 379841, 379851, 379861, 577309, 577322, 577323    
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Fix for dvips -z long href title stack overflow from Debian none

Description Lubomir Kundrak 2007-11-06 17:45:26 UTC 
Description of problem:

DVI file that contains a hypertex reference with long title can trigger a stack
based buffer overflow of a statically sized char array when dvips is called with
-z argument. This could possibly result in arbitrary code execution in case user
was tricked into open a specially crafted DVI file.

Additional info:

This issue affects the versions of the tetex package, as shipped
with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4.

This issue has no security impact on tetex package version, as shipped
in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 due to _FORTIFY_SOURCE protection that
terminates the process before the memory corruption occurs.

This issue has no security impact on texlive package versions,
as shipped with Fedora releases of 11 and 12, due to _FORTIFY_SOURCE
protection that terminates the process before the memory corruption occurs.

See URL field for the orginal bug report from Debian project.
Comment 1 Lubomir Kundrak 2007-11-06 17:45:26 UTC 
Created attachment 249461 [details]
Fix for dvips -z long href title stack overflow from Debian
Comment 2 Lubomir Kundrak 2007-11-06 18:08:13 UTC 
The CVE identifier for this issue was requested.
Comment 3 Lubomir Kundrak 2007-11-13 13:22:16 UTC 
Pinged Mitre about the need for CVE.
Comment 4 Jindrich Novy 2007-11-13 14:35:20 UTC 
Fixed in rawhide. F8, F7, FC-6 pending.
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2007-11-15 03:32:26 UTC 
tetex-3.0-44.2.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update tetex'
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2007-11-15 03:46:22 UTC 
tetex-3.0-40.3.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update tetex'
Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2007-11-20 18:00:49 UTC 
tetex-3.0-40.3.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2007-11-20 18:04:57 UTC 
tetex-3.0-44.3.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 9 Lubomir Kundrak 2007-12-05 19:28:23 UTC 
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security
impact, a future update may address this flaw.
Comment 11 Red Hat Bugzilla 2009-10-23 19:04:37 UTC 
Reporter changed to security-response-team by request of Jay Turner.
Comment 12 Jan Lieskovsky 2010-03-26 11:15:37 UTC 
Public reproducer from Debian bug tracking system:
  [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=447081

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[hypertex]{hyperref}

\begin{document}

\href{/XXXX/XXXXXXX/XXX/XXXXX/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/XXXXXXX/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/XXXXXXXXXX 
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/XXXXXXXXXX XXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXX - 
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX}{solot}

\end{document}
Comment 17 errata-xmlrpc 2010-05-06 18:54:11 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

Via RHSA-2010:0399 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0399.html
Comment 18 errata-xmlrpc 2010-05-06 19:10:50 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3

Via RHSA-2010:0401 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0401.html