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Fedora 31: FEDORA-2020-bb5c663b83 moderate: texlive-base Buffer Overflow

fedora
Calendar Grey February 7, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fix the buffer overflow vulnerability found in the TexOpen() function within the Texlive package on Fedora. A security patch is available now.
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 Than Ngo - 7:20190410-8

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

* Fri Jan 10 2020 Tom Callaway - 7:20190410-7

- fix python3 issue with pdfbook2 (thanks to "Mildred", bz1733794)

- fix python3 issue with latex-papersize (thanks to Silas S. Brown, bz1783964)

* Fri Nov 15 2019 Tom Callaway - 7:20190410-6

- package up the TL fork of psutils to help tlmgr find all the configs it expects

* Fri Nov 1 2019 Pete Walter - 7:20190410-5

- Rebuild for ICU 65

* Fri Oct 18 2019 Tom Callaway - 7:20190410-4

- fix dir ownership

* Wed Oct 9 2019 Jerry James - 7:20190410-3

- Rebuild for mpfr 4

[ 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

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Product: Fedora 31
Version: 20190410
Release: 8.fc31
Summary: TeX formatting system

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