Texinfo: Buffer overflow

Background Texinfo is the official documentation system of the GNU project. Description Miloslav Trmac from Red Hat discovered a buffer overflow in the "readline" function of texindex.c. The "readline" function is called by the texi2dvi and texindex commands. Impact By enticing a user to open a...

USN-379-1: texinfo vulnerability

Miloslav Trmac discovered a buffer overflow in texinfo's index processor. If a user is tricked into processing a .texi file with texindex, this could lead to arbitrary code execution with user privileges...