Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1917-1 mimetex -- several vulnerabilities
- Date Reported:
- 24 Oct 2009
- Affected Packages:
- mimetex
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 537254.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2009-1382, CVE-2009-2459. - More information:
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Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in mimetex, a lightweight alternative to MathML. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
- CVE-2009-1382
Chris Evans and Damien Miller, discovered multiple stack-based buffer overflow. An attacker could execute arbitrary code via a TeX file with long picture, circle, input tags.
- CVE-2009-2459
Chris Evans discovered that mimeTeX contained certain directives that may be unsuitable for handling untrusted user input. A remote attacker can obtain sensitive information.
For the oldstable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 1.50-1+etch1.
Due to a bug in the archive system, the fix for the stable distribution (lenny) will be released as version 1.50-1+lenny1 once it is available.
For the testing distribution (squeeze), and the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.50-1.1.
We recommend that you upgrade your mimetex packages.
- CVE-2009-1382
- Fixed in:
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Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mimetex/mimetex_1.50-1+etch1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mimetex/mimetex_1.50-1+etch1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mimetex/mimetex_1.50.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mimetex/mimetex_1.50-1+etch1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mimetex/mimetex_1.50-1+etch1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mimetex/mimetex_1.50-1+etch1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mimetex/mimetex_1.50-1+etch1_arm.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mimetex/mimetex_1.50-1+etch1_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mimetex/mimetex_1.50-1+etch1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mimetex/mimetex_1.50-1+etch1_ia64.deb
- Big-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mimetex/mimetex_1.50-1+etch1_mips.deb
- Little-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mimetex/mimetex_1.50-1+etch1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mimetex/mimetex_1.50-1+etch1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mimetex/mimetex_1.50-1+etch1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mimetex/mimetex_1.50-1+etch1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.