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openSUSE Leap 42.3: 2018:2998-1 Important: texlive Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey October 4, 2018
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
This crucial announcement highlights a significant security vulnerability in texlive, which mitigates the risk of executing harmful code embedded in fonts.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update for texlive fixes the following issue:

- CVE-2018-17407: Prevent buffer overflow when handling of Type 1 fonts

allowed arbitrary code execution when a malicious font was loaded by one

of the vulnerable tools: pdflatex, pdftex, dvips, or luatex (bsc#1109673)

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security advisory security update buffer overflow code execution important fix openSUSE texlive

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-1099=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):

libkpathsea6-6.2.2-32.3.1

libkpathsea6-debuginfo-6.2.2-32.3.1

libptexenc1-1.3.4-32.3.1

libptexenc1-debuginfo-1.3.4-32.3.1

libsynctex1-1.18-32.3.1

libsynctex1-debuginfo-1.18-32.3.1

libtexlua52-5-5.2.4-32.3.1

libtexlua52-5-debuginfo-5.2.4-32.3.1

libtexluajit2-2.1.0beta2-32.3.1

libtexluajit2-debuginfo-2.1.0beta2-32.3.1

texlive-2016.20160523-32.3.1

texlive-a2ping-bin-2016.20160523.svn27321-32.3.1

texlive-accfonts-bin-2016.20160523.svn12688-32.3.1

texlive-adhocfilelist-bin-2016.20160523.svn28038-32.3.1

texlive-afm2pl-bin-2016.20160523.svn40473-32.3.1

texlive-afm2pl-bin-debuginfo-2016.20160523.svn40473-32.3.1

texlive-aleph-bin-2016.20160523.svn40987-32.3.1

texlive-aleph-bin-debuginfo-2016.20160523.svn40987-32.3.1

texlive-amstex-bin-2016.20160523.svn3006-32.3.1

texlive-arara-bin-2016.20160523.svn29036-32.3.1

texlive-asymptote-bin-2016.20160523.svn41076-32.3.1

texlive-asymptote-bin-debuginfo-2016.20160523.svn41076-32.3.1

texlive-authorindex-bin-2016.20160523.svn18790-32.3.1

texlive...

Read the Full Advisory

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-17407.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1109673

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:2998-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3

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security advisory security update buffer overflow code execution important fix openSUSE texlive

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