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Fedora 20: FEDORA-2015-4332 Moderate: Texlive File Deletion Bug

fedora
Calendar Grey April 2, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
CVE-2015-0297 resolution for texlive scriptlet vulnerability on Fedora 20 mitigates file removal threats efficiently.
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

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora security fix file deletion texlive

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 .

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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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora security fix file deletion texlive

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