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info, texinfo security update

2006-11-0812:34:47
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4.6 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

LOCAL

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

27.1%

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2006:0727

Texinfo is a documentation system that can produce both online information
and printed output from a single source file.

A buffer overflow flaw was found in Texinfo’s texindex command. An attacker
could construct a carefully crafted Texinfo file that could cause texindex
to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code when opened. (CVE-2006-4810)

A flaw was found in the way Texinfo’s texindex command creates temporary
files. A local user could leverage this flaw to overwrite files the user
executing texindex has write access to. (CVE-2005-3011)

Users of Texinfo should upgrade to these updated packages which contain
backported patches and are not vulnerable to these issues.

Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2006-November/075518.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2006-November/075519.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2006-November/075534.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2006-November/075535.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2006-November/075547.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2006-November/075548.html

Affected packages:
info
texinfo

Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006:0727
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006:0730

4.6 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

LOCAL

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

27.1%