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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-4872
2015-03-28 23:42:59
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Name        : texlive
Product     : Fedora 21
Version     : 2014
Release     : 3.1.20140525_r34255.fc21
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:

* Thu Mar 26 2015 Than Ngo  - 4:2014-3.1.20140525_r34255
- bump release and rebuild
* Fri Mar 20 2015 Than Ngo  - 4:2014-3.20140525_r34255
- bump release and rebuild
* Fri Feb 27 2015 Than Ngo  - 4:2014-2.20140525_r34255
- bz#1197084, Security fix for CVE-2015-0296
* Mon Aug 18 2014 Fedora Release Engineering  - 4:2014-1.1.20140525_r34255.1
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_22_Mass_Rebuild
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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 21: texlive Security Update 2015-4872

April 8, 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

* Thu Mar 26 2015 Than Ngo - 4:2014-3.1.20140525_r34255 - bump release and rebuild * Fri Mar 20 2015 Than Ngo - 4:2014-3.20140525_r34255 - bump release and rebuild * Fri Feb 27 2015 Than Ngo - 4:2014-2.20140525_r34255 - bz#1197084, Security fix for CVE-2015-0296 * Mon Aug 18 2014 Fedora Release Engineering - 4:2014-1.1.20140525_r34255.1 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_22_Mass_Rebuild

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 21
Version : 2014
Release : 3.1.20140525_r34255.fc21
URL : https://tug.org/texlive/
Summary : TeX formatting system

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