Gentoo GLSA-200709-17 Moderate: teTeX Multiple Buffer Overflows

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200709-17 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: teTeX: Multiple buffer overflows Date: September 27, 2007 Bugs: #170861, #182055, #188172 ID: 200709-17

Synopsis ======= Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in teTeX, allowing for user-assisted execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= teTeX is a complete TeX distribution for editing documents.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-text/tetex < 3.0_p1-r4 >= 3.0_p1-r4
========== Mark Richters discovered a buffer overflow in the open_sty() function in file mkind.c. Other vulnerabilities have also been discovered in the same file but...