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CVE-2023-51885 (GCVE-0-2023-51885)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-01-24 00:00 – Updated: 2025-05-30 14:17

Summary

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Mathtex v.1.05 and before allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via the length of the LaTeX string component.

Severity

9.8 (Critical)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-05-09 23:59 UTC

CWE

n/a
CWE-120 - Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')

Assigner

mitre mitre root Scorecard

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://blog.yulun.ac.cn/posts/2023/fuzzing-mathtex/

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FKIE_CVE-2023-51885

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-01-24 17:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 06:41

Severity

9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Mathtex v.1.05 and before allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via the length of the LaTeX string component.

References

	URL	Tags
	cve@mitre.org	https://blog.yulun.ac.cn/posts/2023/fuzzing-mathtex/	Exploit, Third Party Advisory
	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://blog.yulun.ac.cn/posts/2023/fuzzing-mathtex/	Exploit, Third Party Advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	ctan	mathtex	*

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GHSA-8H9J-PXFP-9P97

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-01-24 18:31 – Updated: 2025-05-30 15:30

Details

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Mathtex v.1.05 and before allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via the length of the LaTeX string component.

Severity

9.8 (Critical)


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

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GSD-2023-51885

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-26 06:01

Details

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Mathtex v.1.05 and before allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via the length of the LaTeX string component.

Aliases

CVE-2023-51885

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UBUNTU-CVE-2023-51885 (CVE-2023-51885)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2024-01-24 17:15 – Updated: 2025-10-24 05:02 – Source website

Details

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Mathtex v.1.05 and before allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via the length of the LaTeX string component.

Severity

9.8 (Critical)


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

9.8 (Critical)


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

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-51885	REPORT
	https://blog.yulun.ac.cn/posts/2023/fuzzing-mathtex/	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-51885	REPORT

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