CVE-2015-0296

The CVE-2015-0296 entry concerns the TeX Live package scripts. The pre-install script in texlive 3.1.20140525_r34255.fc21 (Fedora 21) and texlive 6.20131226_r32488.fc20 (and related RPMs) allows an unprivileged local user to delete arbitrary files by placing a crafted file in the user’s home dire...

CVE-2015-0296

The pre-install script in texlive 3.1.20140525r34255.fc21 as packaged in Fedora 21 and rpm, and texlive 6.20131226r32488.fc20 and rpm allows local users to delete arbitrary files via a crafted file in the user's home directory...

Design/Logic Flaw

mktexlsr revision 22855 through revision 36625 as packaged in texlive allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack...

CVE-2015-5701

mktexlsr revision 36855, and before revision 36626 as packaged in texlive allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack. NOTE: this vulnerability exists due to the reversion of a fix of CVE-2015-5700...

CVE-2015-5701

mktexlsr revision 36855, and before revision 36626 as packaged in texlive allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack. NOTE: this vulnerability exists due to the reversion of a fix of CVE-2015-5700...

CVE-2015-5700

mktexlsr revision 22855 through revision 36625 as packaged in texlive allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack...

DEBIAN-CVE-2015-5700

mktexlsr revision 22855 through revision 36625 as packaged in texlive allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack...

CVE-2015-5700

mktexlsr revision 22855 through revision 36625 as packaged in texlive allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack...

CVE-2015-5700

mktexlsr revision 22855 through revision 36625 as packaged in texlive allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack...

CVE-2015-5700

CVE-2015-5700 affects mktexlsr (texlive): revisions 22855–36625 packaged in texlive allow local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack. Root cause is a symlink vulnerability; this is tied to packaging in texlive. Some notices also reference a reversal of a fix (CVE-2015-5701). The...

CVE-2015-5701

mktexlsr revision 36855, and before revision 36626 as packaged in texlive allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack. NOTE: this vulnerability exists due to the reversion of a fix of CVE-2015-5700...

CVE-2015-5701

CVE-2015-5701 concerns mktexlsr in texlive. The vulnerability affects mktexlsr revision 36855 and earlier revisions 36626 as packaged in texlive, allowing local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack. The issue arises from the reversion of the fix for CVE-2015-5700. No exploitatio...

CVE-2015-5700

mktexlsr revision 22855 through revision 36625 as packaged in texlive allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack...

UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5700

mktexlsr revision 22855 through revision 36625 as packaged in texlive allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack...

USN-3401-1: TeX Live vulnerability

It was discovered that TeX Live incorrectly handled certain system commands. If a user were tricked into processing a specially crafted TeX file, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code...

The vulnerability of the texlive-base package in the TeX Live system allows a perpetrator to execute arbitrary commands.

The vulnerability of the texlive-base package in the TeX Live system is related to the inclusion of the mpost command in the list of commands allowed to be executed from the original TeX code. The mpost command allows for the execution of other programs during the compilation of TeX documents...

Fedora 26 : 6:texlive (2017-a8add6c46c)

Security fix for CVE-2016-10243 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 7030...

Updated texlive packages fix security vulnerability

It was discovered that texlive whitelists mpost as an external program to be run from within the TeX source code called \write18. Since mpost allows to specify other programs to be run, an attacker can take advantage of this flaw for arbitrary code execution when compiling a TeX document...

MGASA-2017-0127 Updated texlive packages fix security vulnerability

It was discovered that texlive whitelists mpost as an external program to be run from within the TeX source code called \write18. Since mpost allows to specify other programs to be run, an attacker can take advantage of this flaw for arbitrary code execution when compiling a TeX document...

[SECURITY] Fedora 26 Update: texlive-2016-33.20160520.fc26

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...