Fedora 25: Texlive Update FEDORA-2017-b72cafa5b4 Critical DoS Issue
fedora
March 29, 2017
Security fix for CVE-2016-10243
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:
Security fix for CVE-2016-10243
Topics Covered
Change Log
References
[ 1 ] Bug #1429454 - CVE-2016-10243 texlive: mpost allows to run non-whitelisted external programs [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1429454
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade texlive' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html
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Name: texlive
Product: Fedora 25
Version: 2016
Release: 33.20160520.fc25
Summary: TeX formatting system
Topics Covered
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