CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 6.8. It may be remotely exploitable. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.
CVE
CVE-2010-1440
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
6.8
EPSS
3.43%
Original NVD Description
Multiple integer overflows in dvipsk/dospecial.c in dvips in TeX Live 2009 and earlier, and teTeX, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a special command in a DVI file, related to the (1) predospecial and (2) bbdospecial functions, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-0739.