CVE-2023-46048 (GCVE-0-2023-46048)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-03-27 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-04 18:18 Disputed
VLAI?
Summary
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.
Severity ?
6.2 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
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