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Fedora 22 latex2rtf Moderate Format Issue CVE-2015-8106

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Calendar Grey April 8, 2016
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Patch for latex2rtf in Fedora 22 to rectify CVE-2015-8106 format string vulnerability for improved security implementation.
Update to 2.3.10 for CVE-2015-8106

Summary

LaTeX2rtf is a translator program which is intended to translate a LaTeX

document (precisely: the text and a limited subset of LaTeX tags) into the RTF

format which can be imported by several text processors (including Microsoft

Word for Windows and Word for Macintosh).

Update Information:

Update to 2.3.10 for CVE-2015-8106

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate fedora format string latex2rtf CVE-2015-8106

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1282492 - CVE-2015-8106 latex2rtf: Format string vulnerability in CmdKeywords https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1282492

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update latex2rtf' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: latex2rtf
Product: Fedora 22
Version: 2.3.10
Release: 1.fc22
URL:
Summary: LaTeX to RTF converter that handles equations, figures, and cross-references

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security advisory moderate fedora format string latex2rtf CVE-2015-8106

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