Updated texlive packages fix security vulnerability

Updated texlive packages fix security vulnerability: A buffer overflow in the handling of Type 1 fonts allowed arbitrary code execution when a malicious font is loaded by one of the vulnerable tools: pdflatex, pdftex, dvips, or luatex CVE-2018-17407...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : texlive (SUSE-SU-2018:3033-1)

This update for texlive fixes the following issue : CVE-2018-17407: Prevent buffer overflow when handling of Type 1 fonts allowed arbitrary code execution when a malicious font was loaded by one of the vulnerable tools: pdflatex, pdftex, dvips, or luatex bsc1109673 Note that Tenable Network...

CVE-2018-17407

An issue was discovered in t1checkunusualcharstring functions in writet1.c files in TeX Live before 2018-09-21. A buffer overflow in the handling of Type 1 fonts allows arbitrary code execution when a malicious font is loaded by one of the vulnerable tools: pdflatex, pdftex, dvips, or luatex...

Debian DLA-1514-1 : texlive-bin security update

Nick Roessler from the University of Pennsylvania has found a buffer overflow in texlive-bin, the executables for TexLive, the popular distribution of TeX document production system. This buffer overflow can be used for arbitrary code execution by crafting a special type1 font .pfb and provide it...

Buffer overflow

An issue was discovered in t1checkunusualcharstring functions in writet1.c files in TeX Live before 2018-09-21. A buffer overflow in the handling of Type 1 fonts allows arbitrary code execution when a malicious font is loaded by one of the vulnerable tools: pdflatex, pdftex, dvips, or luatex...

CVE-2018-17407

An issue was discovered in t1checkunusualcharstring functions in writet1.c files in TeX Live before 2018-09-21. A buffer overflow in the handling of Type 1 fonts allows arbitrary code execution when a malicious font is loaded by one of the vulnerable tools: pdflatex, pdftex, dvips, or luatex...

CVE-2018-17407

An issue was discovered in t1checkunusualcharstring functions in writet1.c files in TeX Live before 2018-09-21. A buffer overflow in the handling of Type 1 fonts allows arbitrary code execution when a malicious font is loaded by one of the vulnerable tools: pdflatex, pdftex, dvips, or luatex...

CVE-2018-17407

Summary (CVE-2018-17407) : TeX Live before 2018-09-21 contains a buffer overflow in the Type 1 font handling code, specifically in the t1_check_unusual_charstring function within writet1.c. This vulnerability can allow arbitrary code execution if a malicious font is loaded by vulnerable tools (pd...

PT-2017-4251 · Luatex +10 · Luatex +10

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: LuaTeX versions prior to 1.17.0 TeX Live versions prior to 2023 r66984 MiKTeX versions prior to 23.5 Description: The issue is related to the io.popen function in the luatex-core.lua component, which lacks input validation. This allows an...