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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-7292
2015-05-01 11:26:55
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Name        : texlive
Product     : Fedora 21
Version     : 2014
Release     : 7.1.20140525_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:

insecure use of /tmp in mktexlsr
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Apr 29 2015 Than Ngo  - 4:2014-7.1.20140525_r34255
- Resolves: bz#1181169, insecure use of /tmp in mktexlsr
* Wed Mar  4 2015 Ville Skyttä  - 4:2014-7.20140525_r34255
- Install rpm macros in %{_rpmconfidir}/macros.d where available (#1074287)
* Mon Jan 26 2015 David Tardon  - 4:2014-6.20140525_r34255
- rebuild for ICU 54.1
* Fri Jan 23 2015 Marek Kasik  - 4:2014-5.20140525_r34255
- Rebuild (poppler-0.30.0)
* Sat Dec 27 2014 Kevin Fenzi  - 4:2014-4.20140525_r34255
* Drop scriptlet that touches /home. Fixes bugs: #1128240 #1047361 #1073518 #1054338
* Thu Nov 27 2014 Marek Kasik  - 4:2014-3.20140525_r34255
- Rebuild (poppler-0.28.1)
* Tue Aug 26 2014 David Tardon  - 4:2014-2.20140525_r34255
- rebuild for ICU 53.1
* Mon Aug 18 2014 Fedora Release Engineering  - 4:2014-1.20140525_r34255.1
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_22_Mass_Rebuild
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1181167 - texlive: insecure use of /tmp in mktexlsr
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1181167
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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

May 12, 2015
insecure use of /tmp in mktexlsr

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:

insecure use of /tmp in mktexlsr

Change Log

* Wed Apr 29 2015 Than Ngo - 4:2014-7.1.20140525_r34255 - Resolves: bz#1181169, insecure use of /tmp in mktexlsr * Wed Mar 4 2015 Ville Skyttä - 4:2014-7.20140525_r34255 - Install rpm macros in %{_rpmconfidir}/macros.d where available (#1074287) * Mon Jan 26 2015 David Tardon - 4:2014-6.20140525_r34255 - rebuild for ICU 54.1 * Fri Jan 23 2015 Marek Kasik - 4:2014-5.20140525_r34255 - Rebuild (poppler-0.30.0) * Sat Dec 27 2014 Kevin Fenzi - 4:2014-4.20140525_r34255 * Drop scriptlet that touches /home. Fixes bugs: #1128240 #1047361 #1073518 #1054338 * Thu Nov 27 2014 Marek Kasik - 4:2014-3.20140525_r34255 - Rebuild (poppler-0.28.1) * Tue Aug 26 2014 David Tardon - 4:2014-2.20140525_r34255 - rebuild for ICU 53.1 * Mon Aug 18 2014 Fedora Release Engineering - 4:2014-1.20140525_r34255.1 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_22_Mass_Rebuild

References

[ 1 ] Bug #1181167 - texlive: insecure use of /tmp in mktexlsr https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1181167

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 : 7.1.20140525_r34255.fc21
URL : https://tug.org/texlive/
Summary : TeX formatting system

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