DEBIAN-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...

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

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...

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

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...

UBUNTU-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...

TeX Live Parameter Injection Vulnerability

TeX Live is an international TeX user organization TUG developed a set of TeX electronic typesetting system. The system provides typesetting language, macro definition and other functions. A security vulnerability exists in TeX Live 20170524 and earlier versions, which stems from the program...

Design/Logic Flaw

TeX Live through 20170524 does not validate strings before launching the program specified by the BROWSER environment variable, which might allow remote attackers to conduct argument-injection attacks via a crafted URL, related to linkedscripts/context/stubs/unix/mtxrun,...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-17513

TeX Live through 20170524 does not validate strings before launching the program specified by the BROWSER environment variable, which might allow remote attackers to conduct argument-injection attacks via a crafted URL, related to linkedscripts/context/stubs/unix/mtxrun,...

CVE-2017-17513

TeX Live through 20170524 does not validate strings before launching the program specified by the BROWSER environment variable, which might allow remote attackers to conduct argument-injection attacks via a crafted URL, related to linkedscripts/context/stubs/unix/mtxrun,...

CVE-2017-17513

TeX Live through 20170524 does not validate strings before launching the program specified by the BROWSER environment variable, which might allow remote attackers to conduct argument-injection attacks via a crafted URL, related to linkedscripts/context/stubs/unix/mtxrun,...

CVE-2017-17513

TeX Live through 20170524 does not validate strings before launching the program specified by the BROWSER environment variable, which might allow remote attackers to conduct argument-injection attacks via a crafted URL, related to linkedscripts/context/stubs/unix/mtxrun,...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-17513

TeX Live through 20170524 does not validate strings before launching the program specified by the BROWSER environment variable, which might allow remote attackers to conduct argument-injection attacks via a crafted URL, related to linkedscripts/context/stubs/unix/mtxrun,...

CVE-2017-17513

TeX Live

CVE-2017-17513

TeX Live through 20170524 does not validate strings before launching the program specified by the BROWSER environment variable, which might allow remote attackers to conduct argument-injection attacks via a crafted URL, related to linkedscripts/context/stubs/unix/mtxrun,...

CVE-2017-17513

TeX Live through 20170524 does not validate strings before launching the program specified by the BROWSER environment variable, which might allow remote attackers to conduct argument-injection attacks via a crafted URL, related to linkedscripts/context/stubs/unix/mtxrun,...

Kpathsea: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Kpathsea is a library to do path searching. It is used by TeX Live and others TeX related software. Description It was discovered that the mpost program from the shellescapecommands list is capable of executing arbitrary external programs during the conversion of .tex files. The...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : TeX Live vulnerability (USN-3401-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3401-1 advisory. It was discovered that TeX Live incorrectly handled certain system commands. If a user were tricked into processing a specially crafted TeX file, a...