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Fedora 30: FEDORA-2020-fa1956e637 critical: texlive-base buffer overflow

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Calendar Grey February 13, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Ubuntu 20.04 patch addresses vulnerability in libxml2, improving overall system safety. Find extensive update details available here.
Resolve buffer overflow in TexOpen() function, CVE-2019-19601

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.

Resolve buffer overflow in TexOpen() function, CVE-2019-19601

* Wed Feb 5 2020 Tom Callaway - 7:20180414-37

- fix bz#1798119 - buffer overflow in TexOpen() function, CVE-2019-19601

* Fri Jan 10 2020 Tom Callaway - 7:20180414-36

- fix python3 issues with pdfbook2 and latex-papersize

[ 1 ] Bug #1798118 - CVE-2019-19601 texlive: buffer overflow in the TexOpen() function in detex.l

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1798118

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-fa1956e637' 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 30
Version: 20180414
Release: 37.fc30
Summary: TeX formatting system

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