Fedora 22: FEDORA-2015-7564 Moderate: Texlive Insecure /tmp Usage
fedora
May 10, 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
Topics Covered
Change Log
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 .
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Name: texlive
Product: Fedora 22
Version: 2014
Release: 8.20140525_r34255.fc22
Summary: TeX formatting system
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