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Mageia 8: 2023-0233 Moderate: LuaTeX Arbitrary Command Execution

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Calendar Grey July 19, 2023
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Recent texlive updates address a security flaw that permitted shell command execution via LuaTeX. Click to learn more.
Any document compiled with older versions of LuaTeX can execute arbitrary shell commands, even with shell escape disabled

Summary

Any document compiled with older versions of LuaTeX can execute arbitrary shell commands, even with shell escape disabled. (CVE-2023-32700)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31952

- https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2023/msg00097.html

- https://www.maxchernoff.ca/p/luatex-vulnerabilities

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-32700

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Topics Covered

security advisory command execution security fix arbitrary execution Mageia LuaTeX

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/texlive-20200406-9.1.mga8

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Publication date: 19 Jul 2023
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2023-0233.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2023-32700

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Topics Covered

security advisory command execution security fix arbitrary execution Mageia LuaTeX

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