Re: security issue of libkpathsea?

To: kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp
Cc: tetex-pretest@dbs.uni-hannover.de, debian-tetex-maint@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: security issue of libkpathsea?
From: Akira Kakuto <kakuto@fsci.fuk.kindai.ac.jp>
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2003 20:57:16 +0900
Message-id: <[🔎] 200301061157.UAA06172@jupiter.fsci.fuk.kindai.ac.jp>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 06 Jan 2003 17:24:11 +0900 (JST)"
References: <[🔎] 20030106.172411.78729238.kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>

> We Debian tetex maintainers once got the bug report
> in Bug#164820 on the security problem.
> 
> We had a patch in
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=164820
> 
> and the current package (based on teTeX 20021025) was applied 
> this patch, but the latest teTeX is changed and the patch can't 
> be applied anymore.
> 
> Is the problem is fixed already or another patch is needed?

Latest version of tex-make.c is completely rewritten.
popen() is no longer used.
-- 
Akira Kakuto

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