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Fedora 21 Texlive Moderate: Insecure /tmp Use In mktexlsr Advisory

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Calendar Grey May 12, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Mitigating the vulnerabilities associated with /tmp in mktexlsr for Fedora 21 Texlive to improve system security and reliability
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

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora moderate threat system update texlive insecure use

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 .

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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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora moderate threat system update texlive insecure use

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