CVE-2018-17407

An issue was discovered in t1checkunusualcharstring functions in writet1.c files in TeX Live before 2018-09-21. A buffer overflow in the handling of Type 1 fonts allows arbitrary code execution when a malicious font is loaded by one of the vulnerable tools: pdflatex, pdftex, dvips, or luatex...

CVE-2018-17407

An issue was discovered in t1checkunusualcharstring functions in writet1.c files in TeX Live before 2018-09-21. A buffer overflow in the handling of Type 1 fonts allows arbitrary code execution when a malicious font is loaded by one of the vulnerable tools: pdflatex, pdftex, dvips, or luatex...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-17407

An issue was discovered in t1checkunusualcharstring functions in writet1.c files in TeX Live before 2018-09-21. A buffer overflow in the handling of Type 1 fonts allows arbitrary code execution when a malicious font is loaded by one of the vulnerable tools: pdflatex, pdftex, dvips, or luatex...

[SECURITY] [DSA 4299-1] texlive-bin security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-4299-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Yves-Alexis Perez September 21, 2018 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

TeX Live Parameter Injection Vulnerability

TeX Live is an international TeX user organization TUG developed a set of TeX electronic typesetting system. The system provides typesetting language, macro definition and other functions. A security vulnerability exists in TeX Live 20170524 and earlier versions, which stems from the program...

Debian: Security Advisory (DLA-847-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

CVE-2017-17513

TeX Live through 20170524 does not validate strings before launching the program specified by the BROWSER environment variable, which might allow remote attackers to conduct argument-injection attacks via a crafted URL, related to linkedscripts/context/stubs/unix/mtxrun,...

CVE-2017-17513

TeX Live through 20170524 does not validate strings before launching the program specified by the BROWSER environment variable, which might allow remote attackers to conduct argument-injection attacks via a crafted URL, related to linkedscripts/context/stubs/unix/mtxrun,...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-17513

TeX Live through 20170524 does not validate strings before launching the program specified by the BROWSER environment variable, which might allow remote attackers to conduct argument-injection attacks via a crafted URL, related to linkedscripts/context/stubs/unix/mtxrun,...

Design/Logic Flaw

TeX Live through 20170524 does not validate strings before launching the program specified by the BROWSER environment variable, which might allow remote attackers to conduct argument-injection attacks via a crafted URL, related to linkedscripts/context/stubs/unix/mtxrun,...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-17513

TeX Live through 20170524 does not validate strings before launching the program specified by the BROWSER environment variable, which might allow remote attackers to conduct argument-injection attacks via a crafted URL, related to linkedscripts/context/stubs/unix/mtxrun,...

CVE-2017-17513

TeX Live through 20170524 does not validate strings before launching the program specified by the BROWSER environment variable, which might allow remote attackers to conduct argument-injection attacks via a crafted URL, related to linkedscripts/context/stubs/unix/mtxrun,...

CVE-2017-17513

TeX Live through 20170524 does not validate strings before launching the program specified by the BROWSER environment variable, which might allow remote attackers to conduct argument-injection attacks via a crafted URL, related to linkedscripts/context/stubs/unix/mtxrun,...

CVE-2017-17513

TeX Live

CVE-2017-17513

TeX Live through 20170524 does not validate strings before launching the program specified by the BROWSER environment variable, which might allow remote attackers to conduct argument-injection attacks via a crafted URL, related to linkedscripts/context/stubs/unix/mtxrun,...

[SECURITY] Fedora 27 Update: transfig-3.2.6a-1.fc27

The transfig utility creates a makefile which translates FIG created by xfig or PIC figures into a specified LaTeX graphics language for example, PostScriptTM. Transfig is used to create TeX documents which are portable i.e., they can be printed in a wide variety of environments. Install transfig...

[SECURITY] Fedora 26 Update: transfig-3.2.6a-1.fc26

The transfig utility creates a makefile which translates FIG created by xfig or PIC figures into a specified LaTeX graphics language for example, PostScriptTM. Transfig is used to create TeX documents which are portable i.e., they can be printed in a wide variety of environments. Install transfig...

GLSA-201709-07 : Kpathsea: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201709-07 Kpathsea: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code It was discovered that the mpost program from the shellescapecommands list is capable of executing arbitrary external programs during the conversion of .tex files. The...

Kpathsea: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background Kpathsea is a library to do path searching. It is used by TeX Live and others TeX related software. Description It was discovered that the mpost program from the shellescapecommands list is capable of executing arbitrary external programs during the conversion of .tex files. The...

Unspecified vulnerability in mktexlsr (CNVD-2017-30561)

mktexlsr is a library for generating catalogs. A security vulnerability exists in mktexlsr revision 36855 and versions prior to revision 36626. A local attacker can overwrite arbitrary files with the help of symbolic links...