Fedora 2004-585 Critical: tetex Package 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.

- Fix CAN-2004-1125 xpdf overflow

bed96f12e8b704ab17f565ff04a7c4f9 SRPMS/tetex-2.0.2-21.2.src.rpm

2fb48ee61a8ece3bc8a10dda310346b8 x86_64/tetex-2.0.2-21.2.x86_64.rpm

eff9c7833844595b3cd7e64debdbd7eb x86_64/tetex-latex-2.0.2-21.2.x86_64.rpm

dd14c8de2086063383d11e5b53e537af x86_64/tetex-xdvi-2.0.2-21.2.x86_64.rpm

38e520d0ae06f09b3317ce26ed0e1aeb x86_64/tetex-dvips-2.0.2-21.2.x86_64.rpm

0e739680d044d73882ff0731b26f378f x86_64/tetex-afm-2.0.2-21.2.x86_64.rpm

36e18f7405ce3fb7b54e3fa639de11b4 x86_64/tetex-fonts-2.0.2-21.2.x86_64.rpm

929fee56d78fe31605b32861258fd827 x86_64/tetex-doc-2.0.2-21.2.x86_64.rpm

92a801ec36ca13de833208b712b87acd x86_64/debug/tetex-debuginfo-2.0.2-21.2.x86_64.rpm

5efacdad82d61ed25030269b6c89abfe i386/tetex-2.0.2-21.2.i386.rpm

e249065b4ff83339a52cf4ee67b5931d i386/tetex-latex-2.0.2-21.2.i386.rpm

aee5e12bc7c8349ab06f0f3ebe8eab5f i386/tetex-xdvi-2.0.2-21.2.i386.rpm

14ea742121160307adbbcf37c4a3401a i386/tetex-dvips-2.0.2-21.2.i386.rpm

49967d06270603a146d9f8d27eaaf08c i386/tetex-afm-2.0.2-21.2.i386.rpm

569591b26e0cab205c87f112756212c9 i386/tetex-fonts-2.0.2-21.2.i386.rpm

7ec42e9568ec05ed17b5ad708286bd0d i386/tetex-doc-2.0.2-21.2.i386.rpm

d9483991ce1585e0d1cb4999bf4c8bec i386/debug/tetex-debuginfo-2.0.2-21.2.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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