USN-6695-1: TeX Live vulnerabilities

It was discovered that TeX Live incorrectly handled certain memory operations in the embedded axodraw2 tool. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause TeX Live to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. CVE-2019-18604 It was discovered that TeX...

USN-6695-1 texlive-bin vulnerabilities

It was discovered that TeX Live incorrectly handled certain memory operations in the embedded axodraw2 tool. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause TeX Live to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. CVE-2019-18604 It was discovered that TeX...

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...

BIT-MOODLE-2021-20186

It was found in Moodle before version 3.10.1, 3.9.4, 3.8.7 and 3.5.16 that if the TeX notation filter was enabled, additional sanitizing of TeX content was required to prevent the risk of stored XSS...

CentOS 9 : texlive-20200406-26.el9

The remote CentOS Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the texlive-20200406-26.el9 build changelog. - LuaTeX before 1.17.0 allows execution of arbitrary shell commands when compiling a TeX file obtained from an untrusted source. This occurs...

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...

CentOS 8 : texlive (CESA-2023:3661)

The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CESA-2023:3661 advisory. - LuaTeX before 1.17.0 allows execution of arbitrary shell commands when compiling a TeX file obtained from an untrusted source. This occurs because...

TeX Live Security Breach

TeX Live is a free, open source TeX distribution for typesetting documents. A security vulnerability exists in TeX Live version v.944e257 that stems from the presence of a Null pointer reference issue...

PT-2024-13324 · Tex Live +2 · Tex Live +2

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: TeX Live version 944e257 Description: The issue in TeX Live allows a NULL pointer dereference in the tounicode.c file, located in texk/web2c/pdftexdir. However, it is noted that this issue is disputed and might be categorized as a usability...

PT-2024-13321 · Tex Live +2 · Tex Live +2

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Tex Live version 944e257 Description: The issue is related to a NULL pointer dereference in the writet1.c file located in texk/web2c/pdftexdir. This occurs when handling a crafted cmr10.pfb file. It is noted that the categorization of this...

UBUNTU-CVE-2023-51885

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Mathtex v.1.05 and before allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via the length of the LaTeX string component...

PT-2024-41141 · Mimetex +1 · Mimetex +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: forkosh Mime Tex versions prior to 1.77 Description: A Directory Traversal vulnerability in forkosh Mime Tex allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code via a crafted file upload. This issue enables an attacker to potentially access and...

PT-2024-41142 · Mimetex +1 · Mimetex +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: forkosh Mime Tex versions prior to 1.77 Description: An issue in forkosh Mime Tex allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code via a crafted script. Recommendations: For versions prior to 1.77, update to version 1.77 or later to resolve the...

Oracle Linux 7 : texlive (ELSA-2020-1036)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2020-1036 advisory. 2:2012-45.20130427r30134 - Related: 1650521, buffer overflow in t1checkunusualcharstring function 2:2012-44.20130427r30134 - Resolves: 1650521, buffer overflow ...

openSUSE 15: libkpathsea6 / libptexenc1 / libsynctex2 / libtexlua53-5 / etc (SUSE-SU-2023:2284-2)

The remote openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE- SU-2023:2284-2 advisory. - CVE-2023-32700: Fixed arbitrary code execution in LuaTeX bsc1211389. Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security...

The vulnerability of the io.popen() function in the luatex-core.lua component of LuaTeX desktop publishing systems, such as TeX Live and MiKTeX, allows a malicious actor to execute arbitrary commands.

The vulnerability of the io.popen function in the luatex-core.lua component of LuaTeX desktop publishing systems such as TeX Live and MiKTeX is related to the lack of measures to sanitize input data. Exploiting this vulnerability allows an attacker to execute arbitrary commands...

The vulnerability of the axodraw2 component in the TeX Live typesetting system allows a hacker to gain access to confidential data, compromise its integrity, and cause service failures.

The vulnerability of the axodraw2 component in the TeX Live typesetting system is related to insufficient validation of input data. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a remote attacker to access confidential data, compromise its integrity, and cause service failures...

OESA-2023-1421 texlive-base security update

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...

Oracle Linux 8 / 9 : texlive (ELSA-2023-3661)

The remote Oracle Linux 8 / 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2023-3661 advisory. 9:20200406-26 - Resolves: 2209872, CVE-2023-32700 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory. No...

texlive: arbitrary code execution allows document complied with older version

An arbitrary code execution vulnerability was found in LuaTeX TeX Live that allows any document compiled with older versions of LuaTeX to execute arbitrary shell commands, even with shell escape disabled...