The vulnerability of the io.popen() function in the luatex-core.lua component of LuaTeX desktop publishing systems, such as TeX Live and MiKTeX, allows a malicious actor to execute arbitrary commands.

The vulnerability of the io.popen function in the luatex-core.lua component of LuaTeX desktop publishing systems such as TeX Live and MiKTeX is related to the lack of measures to sanitize input data. Exploiting this vulnerability allows an attacker to execute arbitrary commands...

MGASA-2023-0233 Updated texlive packages fix security vulnerability

Any document compiled with older versions of LuaTeX can execute arbitrary shell commands, even with shell escape disabled. CVE-2023-32700...

Updated texlive packages fix security vulnerability

Any document compiled with older versions of LuaTeX can execute arbitrary shell commands, even with shell escape disabled. CVE-2023-32700...

OESA-2023-1421 texlive-base security update

The TeX Live software distribution offers a complete TeX system for a variety of Unix, Macintosh, Windows and other platforms. It encompasses programs for editing, typesetting, previewing and printing of TeX documents in many different languages, and a large collection of TeX macros and font...

Rocky Linux 8 / 9 : texlive (RLSA-2023:3661)

The remote Rocky Linux 8 / 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2023:3661 advisory. - LuaTeX before 1.17.0 allows execution of arbitrary shell commands when compiling a TeX file obtained from an untrusted source. This occurs because...

Oracle Linux 8 / 9 : texlive (ELSA-2023-3661)

The remote Oracle Linux 8 / 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2023-3661 advisory. 9:20200406-26 - Resolves: 2209872, CVE-2023-32700 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory. No...

texlive: arbitrary code execution allows document complied with older version

An arbitrary code execution vulnerability was found in LuaTeX TeX Live that allows any document compiled with older versions of LuaTeX to execute arbitrary shell commands, even with shell escape disabled...

Fedora 37 : texlive-base (2023-d261122726)

The remote Fedora 37 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-d261122726 advisory. Fix CVE-2023-32700 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Note that Nessus has not tested...

USN-6115-1: TeX Live vulnerability

Max Chernoff discovered that LuaTeX TeX Live did not properly disable shell escape. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary shell commands...

USN-6115-1 texlive-bin vulnerability

Max Chernoff discovered that LuaTeX TeX Live did not properly disable shell escape. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary shell commands...

Fedora 38 : texlive-base (2023-38094d905c)

The remote Fedora 38 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-38094d905c advisory. Fixes CVE-2023-32700. Also fixes issues with mptopdf.pl, thumb2pdf.pl, and mtxrun. Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly fr...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 : TeX Live vulnerability (USN-6115-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-6115-1 advisory. Max Chernoff discovered that LuaTeX TeX Live did not properly disable shell escape. An attacker could possibly use this issue to...

SUSE SLES15: cups-filters / cups-filters-devel / libkpathsea6 / libpoppler-cpp0 / etc (SUSE-SU-2023:2287-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLESSAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:2287-1 advisory. cups-filters: - CVE-2023-24805: Fixed a remote code execution in the beh backend bsc1211340. texlive: - CVE-2023-3270...

Slackware Linux 15.0 / current texlive Vulnerability (SSA:2023-144-01)

The version of texlive installed on the remote host is prior to 2023.230322. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SSA:2023-144-01 advisory. - LuaTeX before 1.17.0 allows execution of arbitrary shell commands when compiling a TeX file obtained from an untrusted source...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2023:2285-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

SUSE SLES15: libkpathsea6 / libptexenc1 / libsynctex1 / libtexlua52-5 / etc (SUSE-SU-2023:2285-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLESSAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:2285-1 advisory. - CVE-2023-32700: Fixed arbitrary code execution in LuaTeX bsc1211389. Tenable has extracted the preceding description block...

SUSE-SU-2023:2285-1 Security update for texlive

This update for texlive fixes the following issues: - CVE-2023-32700: Fixed arbitrary code execution in LuaTeX bsc1211389...

SUSE-SU-2023:2284-1 Security update for texlive

This update for texlive fixes the following issues: - CVE-2023-32700: Fixed arbitrary code execution in LuaTeX bsc1211389...

Debian dla-3427 : libkpathsea-dev - security update

The remote Debian 10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dla-3427 advisory. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian LTS Advisory DLA-3427-2 [email protected]...

CVE-2023-32700

An arbitrary code execution vulnerability was found in LuaTeX TeX Live that allows any document compiled with older versions of LuaTeX to execute arbitrary shell commands, even with shell escape disabled...