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Fedora 38 FEDORA-2023-38094d905c Moderate: texlive-base Execution Fix

fedora
Calendar Grey May 31, 2023
Dist Fedora Esm H88
In relation to CVE-2023-32700, Fedora 38's texlive-base patch effectively fixes major operational problems.
Fixes CVE-2023-32700

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.

Fixes CVE-2023-32700. Also fixes issues with mptopdf.pl, thumb2pdf.pl, and

mtxrun.

* Thu May 25 2023 Tom Callaway - 10:20220321-72

- apply upstream fix for CVE-2023-32700

- patch texmfcnf.lua

- fix mptopdf.pl and thumbpdf.pl to have proper interpreter lines

[ 1 ] Bug #2208943 - CVE-2023-32700 texlive: arbitrary code execution allows document complied with older version

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2208943

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-38094d905c' 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 38
Version: 20220321
Release: 72.fc38
Summary: TeX formatting system

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