CVE-2023-51885

State: Published
Severity: 9.8 Critical
Published: Jan 24, 2024
Updated: May 30, 2025
Reserved: Dec 26, 2023

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	9.8 Critical	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

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

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

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

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