SUSE 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...

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...

Fedora Core 3 : texinfo-4.8-2.2 (2005-990)

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...

CVE-2005-3011

The sortoffline function for texindex in texinfo 4.8 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files...