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...

USN-194-2: texinfo regression fix

USN-194-1 fixed a vulnerability in the 'texindex' program. Unfortunately this update introduced a regression that caused the program to abort when cleaning up temporary files which are used with extraordinarily large input files. The updated packages fix this...

Fedora Core 4 : texinfo-4.8-4.1 (2005-991)

This package fixes a temporary file name vulnerability in the texindex program CVE-2005-3011. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible...