Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.10 : TeX Live vulnerabilities (USN-6695-1)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6695-1 advisory. It was discovered that TeX Live incorrectly handled certain memory operations in the embedded axodraw2 tool. An attacker could possib...

Heap overflow

texlive-bin commit c515e was discovered to contain heap buffer overflow via the function ttfLoadHDMX:ttfdump. This vulnerability allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service DoS via supplying a crafted TTF file...

TeX Live Security Breach

TeX Live is a free and open source TeX distribution for typesetting documents. A security vulnerability exists in TeX Live version c515e, which stems from a buffer overflow vulnerability in the function ttfLoadHDMX:ttfdump...