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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-4332
2015-03-21 00:16:07
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Name        : texlive
Product     : Fedora 20
Version     : 2013
Release     : 6.20131226_r32488.fc20
URL         : https://tug.org/texlive/
Summary     : TeX formatting system
Description :
The TeX Live software distribution offers a complete TeX system for a
variety of Unix, Macintosh, Windows and other platforms. It
encompasses programs for editing, typesetting, previewing and printing
of TeX documents in many different languages, and a large collection
of TeX macros and font libraries.

The distribution includes extensive general documentation about TeX,
as well as the documentation for the included software packages.

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Update Information:

CVE-2015-0296 texlive rpm scriptlet allows unprivileged user to delete arbitrary files. This update fixes this issue
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Feb 27 2015 Than Ngo  3:2013-6-20131226
- bz#1197084, Security fix for CVE-2015-0296
* Thu May 15 2014 Petr Pisar  - 2013-5-20131226
- Do not export private perl modules (bug #1085424)
* Thu Dec 26 2013 Jindrich Novy  - 2013-4-20131226
- sync with upstream + add BR: libpaper-devel, potrace-devel
- remove generated files upon update to avoid 'I'm stymified', etc.
- update co_source - upstream SVN checkout script
- disable Perl dependencies generation for F19 and older (#1023876)
- always have format in printf() #1037351
- fixes #921805, #952080, #1020941, #1025679, #1045794
- Merry Christmas!
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1197082 - CVE-2015-0296 texlive rpm scriptlet allows unprivileged user to delete arbitrary files
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1197082
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use
su -c 'yum update texlive' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at .

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/security/
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Fedora 20: texlive Security Update

April 2, 2015
CVE-2015-0296 texlive rpm scriptlet allows unprivileged user to delete arbitrary files

Summary

The TeX Live software distribution offers a complete TeX system for a

variety of Unix, Macintosh, Windows and other platforms. It

encompasses programs for editing, typesetting, previewing and printing

of TeX documents in many different languages, and a large collection

of TeX macros and font libraries.

The distribution includes extensive general documentation about TeX,

as well as the documentation for the included software packages.

Update Information:

CVE-2015-0296 texlive rpm scriptlet allows unprivileged user to delete arbitrary files. This update fixes this issue

Change Log

* Fri Feb 27 2015 Than Ngo 3:2013-6-20131226 - bz#1197084, Security fix for CVE-2015-0296 * Thu May 15 2014 Petr Pisar - 2013-5-20131226 - Do not export private perl modules (bug #1085424) * Thu Dec 26 2013 Jindrich Novy - 2013-4-20131226 - sync with upstream + add BR: libpaper-devel, potrace-devel - remove generated files upon update to avoid 'I'm stymified', etc. - update co_source - upstream SVN checkout script - disable Perl dependencies generation for F19 and older (#1023876) - always have format in printf() #1037351 - fixes #921805, #952080, #1020941, #1025679, #1045794 - Merry Christmas!

References

[ 1 ] Bug #1197082 - CVE-2015-0296 texlive rpm scriptlet allows unprivileged user to delete arbitrary files https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1197082

Update Instructions

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

Severity
Name : texlive
Product : Fedora 20
Version : 2013
Release : 6.20131226_r32488.fc20
URL : https://tug.org/texlive/
Summary : TeX formatting system

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