DEBIAN-CVE-2006-4810

Buffer overflow in the readline function in util/texindex.c, as used by the 1 texi2dvi and 2 texindex commands, in texinfo 4.8 and earlier allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Texinfo file...

security flaw

Buffer overflow in the readline function in util/texindex.c, as used by the 1 texi2dvi and 2 texindex commands, in texinfo 4.8 and earlier allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Texinfo file...

texindex -- temporary file privilege escalation

Problem description The "sortoffline" function used by texindex1 employs the "maketempname" function, which produces predictable file names and fails to validate that the paths do not exist. Impact These predictable temporary file names are problematic because they allow an attacker to take...