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HistoryApr 04, 2011 - 12:00 a.m.

tex-common vulnerability

2011-04-0400:00:00
ubuntu.com
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7.4 High

AI Score

Confidence

Low

6.8 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.092 Low

EPSS

Percentile

94.6%

Releases

  • Ubuntu 10.10
  • Ubuntu 10.04

Packages

  • tex-common - common infrastructure for building and installing TeX

Details

Mathias Svensson discovered that the tex-common package contains an
insecure shell_escape_commands configuration item. If a user or automated
system were tricked into opening a specially crafted TeX file, a remote
attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges.

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
Ubuntu10.10noarchtex-common< 2.08ubuntu0.1UNKNOWN
Ubuntu10.04noarchtex-common< 2.06ubuntu0.1UNKNOWN

7.4 High

AI Score

Confidence

Low

6.8 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.092 Low

EPSS

Percentile

94.6%