Gentoo GLSA-200711-26 Normal: teTeX Multiple Code Execution Threats
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November 18, 2007
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in teTeX, possibly allowing to execute arbitrary code or overwrite arbitrary files.
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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200711-26
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: teTeX: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: November 18, 2007
Bugs: #198238
ID: 200711-26
Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in teTeX, possibly
allowing to execute arbitrary code or overwrite arbitrary files.
Background
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teTeX is a complete TeX distribution for editing documents.
Affected packages
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1 app-text/tetex < 3.0_p1-r6 >= 3.0_p1-r6
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Joachim Schrod discovered several buffer overflow vulnerabilities and
an insecure temporary file creation in th...Read the Full Advisory
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