Fedora Core 2: 2004-584 Critical: tetex Buffer Overflow Risk

TeTeX is an implementation of TeX for Linux or UNIX systems. TeX takes

a text file and a set of formatting commands as input and creates a

typesetter-independent .dvi (DeVice Independent) file as output.

Usually, TeX is used in conjunction with a higher level formatting

package like LaTeX or PlainTeX, since TeX by itself is not very

user-friendly.

Install tetex if you want to use the TeX text formatting system. If

you are installing tetex, you will also need to install tetex-afm (a

PostScript(TM) font converter for TeX),

tetex-dvips (for converting .dvi files to PostScript format

for printing on PostScript printers), tetex-latex (a higher level

formatting package which provides an easier-to-use interface for TeX),

and tetex-xdvi (for previewing .dvi files in X). Unless you are an

expert at using TeX, you should also install the tetex-doc package,

which includes the documentation for TeX.

The updated tetex package fixes a buffer overflow which allows attackers

to cause the internal xpdf library used by applications in tetex to

crash,

and possibly to execute arbitrary code. The Common Vulnerabilities and

Exposures projects (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2004-1125

to this issue.

193a09ec8b28cf3f81062f48d67f9b2e SRPMS/tetex-2.0.2-14FC2.1.src.rpm

d039a779706b57ad73dba2c813d8dd4e x86_64/tetex-2.0.2-14FC2.1.x86_64.rpm

7afcd9f4ba512cf39f952f8112fa0c2a x86_64/tetex-latex-2.0.2-14FC2.1.x86_64.rpm

0bc4d2c46262e9e889717a38b4e8c13c x86_64/tetex-xdvi-2.0.2-14FC2.1.x86_64.rpm

db6ebdb90075b40931c8777ffe7ce72c x86_64/tetex-dvips-2.0.2-14FC2.1.x86_64.rpm

0795d1a2e9f3ede2a11dada3a28af407 x86_64/tetex-afm-2.0.2-14FC2.1.x86_64.rpm

919f9b7344bf48ba44d824c205772ddc x86_64/tetex-fonts-2.0.2-14FC2.1.x86_64.rpm

1a54d5e72a52af60052dfe872d0eff0a x86_64/tetex-doc-2.0.2-14FC2.1.x86_64.rpm

23825bd0d6c799e7cb8ffb9fe5092d2c x86_64/debug/tetex-debuginfo-2.0.2-14FC2.1.x86_64.rpm

f545239d29f60d03a9e1daa11519d9aa i386/tetex-2.0.2-14FC2.1.i386.rpm

28fee73888fd854924e044268bdac231 i386/tetex-latex-2.0.2-14FC2.1.i386.rpm

b091aa0952f558ed05086c792b48ed78 i386/tetex-xdvi-2.0.2-14FC2.1.i386.rpm

29ce8cdf24b0d5d8103eb2f740fc0745 i386/tetex-dvips-2.0.2-14FC2.1.i386.rpm

003ca90ef61a66db88c8298e218dac2a i386/tetex-afm-2.0.2-14FC2.1.i386.rpm

4605f9781f926f36954765012f84a9db i386/tetex-fonts-2.0.2-14FC2.1.i386.rpm

5183b48d4df32a1884667fc2a9a53702 i386/tetex-doc-2.0.2-14FC2.1.i386.rpm

ba9ed7453ce906599fa71eaada0c38a4 i386/debug/tetex-debuginfo-2.0.2-14FC2.1.i386.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can

launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.

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