The vulnerability of the Texinfo makeinfo document conversion tool, caused by segmentation errors, allows a malicious actor to trigger a service failure.

The vulnerability of the Texinfo makeinfo document conversion tool is due to segmentation errors. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to cause a service failure in the application by entering a specially crafted sequence of data into the command line...

security flaw

Buffer overflow in the readline function in util/texindex.c, as used by the 1 texi2dvi and 2 texindex commands, in texinfo 4.8 and earlier allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Texinfo file...

Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 : texinfo vulnerability (USN-194-1)

Frank Lichtenheld discovered that the 'texindex' program created temporary files in an insecure manner. This could allow a symlink attack to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running texindex. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding...