Debian Security Advisory
DSA-4299-1 texlive-bin -- security update
- Date Reported:
- 21 Sep 2018
- Affected Packages:
- texlive-bin
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 909317.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-17407. - More information:
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Nick Roessler from the University of Pennsylvania has found a buffer overflow in texlive-bin, the executables for TexLive, the popular distribution of TeX document production system.
This buffer overflow can be used for arbitrary code execution by crafting a special type1 font (.pfb) and provide it to users running pdf(la)tex, dvips or luatex in a way that the font is loaded.
For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 2016.20160513.41080.dfsg-2+deb9u1.
We recommend that you upgrade your texlive-bin packages.
For the detailed security status of texlive-bin please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/texlive-bin