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Fedora 30: 2019-1981478ghj Major: LaTeX-Tools Memory Leak

fedora
Calendar Grey October 9, 2018
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Implement crucial security patch for texlive-base within Fedora to address buffer overflow issues, ensuring improved system reliability.
Update pretty much everything in texlive

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 pretty much everything in texlive. Apply upstream fix for CVE-2018-17407.

Resolve (hopefully) all dependency issues.

[ 1 ] Bug #1632803 - CVE-2018-17407 texlive: Buffer overflow in t1_check_unusual_charstring function in writet1.c [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1632803

[ 2 ] Bug #1599508 - texlive update still has issues with failed dependencies

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1599508

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-1959097dfc' 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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Product: Fedora 29
Version: 20180414
Release: 24.fc29
Summary: TeX formatting system

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