Vulnerability Report

CVE-2007-5936

Title: Tug Texlive 2007 Information Disclosure

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2007-5936.

CWE Category CWE-264

Published Date Nov 13, 2007

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 3.6 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.40%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2007-5936: dvips in teTeX and TeXlive 2007 and earlier allows local users to obtain sensitive information and modify certain data by creating certain temporary files before they are processed by dviljk, which can then be read or modified in place.

Impacted Vendors

tetex 1

tug 2

Reference Links

http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=135423 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198238 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00002.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-05/msg00000.html http://osvdb.org/42238 http://secunia.com/advisories/27672 http://secunia.com/advisories/27686 http://secunia.com/advisories/27718 http://secunia.com/advisories/27743 http://secunia.com/advisories/27967 http://secunia.com/advisories/28107 http://secunia.com/advisories/28412 http://secunia.com/advisories/30168 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-26.xml http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-34.xml http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-13.xml http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2007-0266 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:230 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487984/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26469 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019058 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3896 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=368611 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1928 https://usn.ubuntu.com/554-1/ https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00663.html http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=135423 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198238 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00002.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-05/msg00000.html http://osvdb.org/42238 http://secunia.com/advisories/27672 http://secunia.com/advisories/27686 http://secunia.com/advisories/27718 http://secunia.com/advisories/27743 http://secunia.com/advisories/27967 http://secunia.com/advisories/28107 http://secunia.com/advisories/28412 http://secunia.com/advisories/30168 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-26.xml http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-34.xml http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-13.xml http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2007-0266 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:230 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487984/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26469 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019058 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3896 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=368611 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1928 https://usn.ubuntu.com/554-1/ https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00663.html

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

3.6

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2007-5936 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

November 13, 2007 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


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

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.