CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-4810

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2006-11-08 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-11-08
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Buffer overflow in the readline function in util/texindex.c, as used by the (1) texi2dvi and (2) texindex commands, in texinfo 4.8 and earlier allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Texinfo file.

Affected configurations

• gnu texinfo (<= 4.8)

References