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Fedora 10: 2009-10225 Critical: Mimetex Buffer Overflow

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Mimetex release for Fedora 10 addresses significant buffer overflow vulnerabilities and improves capabilities. Discover further details here.
- Fixes a buffer-overflow as detailed in #511049

Summary

MimeTeX lets you easily embed LaTeX math in your html pages. It parses a LaTeX

math expression and immediately emits the corresponding gif image, rather than

the usual TeX dvi. And mimeTeX is an entirely separate little program that

doesn't use TeX or its fonts in any way.

Update Information:

- Fixes a buffer-overflow as detailed in #511049. - Updates to 1.7.

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Change Log

* Thu Oct 1 2009 Jorge Torres - 1.71-1 - Update to 1.71 * Sat Jul 25 2009 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.60-7 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild * Wed Feb 25 2009 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.60-6 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Mass_Rebuild

References


[ 1 ] Bug #511049 - CVE-2009-1382 CVE-2009-2459 mimeTeX: various flaws https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511049

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update mimetex' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: mimetex
Product: Fedora 10
Version: 1.71
Release: 1.fc10
URL: Summary : Easily embed LaTeX math in web pages

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