CVE-2024-25262

Published: Feb 29, 2024Modified: Nov 3, 2025

8.1

Vector

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

Exploitability: 2.8 / Impact: 5.2

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

Description

texlive-bin commit c515e was discovered to contain heap buffer overflow via the function ttfLoadHDMX:ttfdump. This vulnerability allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via supplying a crafted TTF file.

Related CWEs

CWE-122

Heap-based Buffer Overflow

A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc().

References (5)

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/texlive-bin/+bug/2047912

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/ttfdump/ChangeLog?revision=69605&view=co

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/texlive-bin/+bug/2047912

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

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/10/msg00032.html

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

https://tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/ttfdump/ChangeLog?revision=69605&view=co

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

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