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Debian 8: DLA-1514-1 Moderate: Texlive-bin Buffer Overflow Exploit

debian lts
Calendar Grey September 22, 2018
Dist Debian Esm H88
Uncover the texlive-bin patch that mitigates a buffer overflow flaw for Debian LTS installations.
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 syste...
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security advisory buffer overflow Debian arbitrary code execution texlive-bin

Summary

For Debian 8 "Jessie", this problem has been fixed in version
2014.20140926.35254-6+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your texlive-bin packages.

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS

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Ben Hutchings - Debian developer, member of kernel, installer and LTS teams


<pre><font face="Courier">Package: texlive-bin
Version: 2014.20140926.35254-6+deb8u1
CVE ID: not yet available

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security advisory buffer overflow Debian arbitrary code execution texlive-bin

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