CVE-2023-46048

Published: Mar 27, 2024Modified: Jun 17, 2026Deferred

6.2

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Exploitability: 2.5 / Impact: 3.6

Source: 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)

Description

Tex Live 944e257 has a NULL pointer dereference in texk/web2c/pdftexdir/writet1.c. NOTE: this is disputed because it should be categorized as a usability problem.

Related CWEs

CWE-476

NULL Pointer Dereference

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

References (5)

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jan/65

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2023-August/049400.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/176819/tex-live-944e257-Null-Pointer.html

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jan/65

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2023-August/049400.html

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

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