Medium severity6.2NVD Advisory· Published Mar 27, 2024· Updated Apr 15, 2026

CVE-2023-46048

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.

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.

References

packetstormsecurity.com/files/176819/tex-live-944e257-Null-Pointer.htmlnvd
seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jan/65nvd
tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2023-August/049400.htmlnvd

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