CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-0650

6.8 MEDIUM Published 2007-02-01 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-02-01
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Buffer overflow in the open_sty function in mkind.c for makeindex 2.14 in teTeX might allow user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite files and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long filename. NOTE: other overflows exist but might not be exploitable, such as a heap-based overflow in the check_idx function.

Affected configurations

• makeindex makeindex 2.14

References