Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 714
Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 714

Gentoo: GLSA-200603-02 Normal: teTeX Multiple Overflow Threat

gentoo
Calendar Grey March 4, 2006
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
LaTeX, XeLaTeX, and LuaTeX have known security flaws susceptible to exploit through harmful PDF documents, necessitating prompt patches for user protection.
CSTeTeX, pTeX, and teTeX include vulnerable XPdf code to handle PDF files, making them vulnerable to the execution of arbitrary code.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200603-02 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: teTeX, pTeX, CSTeX: Multiple overflows in included XPdf code Date: March 04, 2006 Bugs: #115775 ID: 200603-02

Synopsis ======= CSTeTeX, pTeX, and teTeX include vulnerable XPdf code to handle PDF files, making them vulnerable to the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= teTex is a complete TeX distribution. It is used for creating and manipulating LaTeX documents. CSTeX is a TeX distribution with Czech and Slovak support. pTeX is and ASCII publishing TeX distribution.
...

Read the Full Advisory

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory gentoo code execution teTeX pTeX CSTeX xpDF exploit

Resolution

References

Availability

style>.gentoo_availability{display:block;}

Concerns

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory gentoo code execution teTeX pTeX CSTeX xpDF exploit

Synopsis

Background

Get the latest News and Insights

Get the latest Linux and open source security news straight to your inbox.

Affected Packages

Impact

Workaround

Your message here