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RedHat: RHSA-2020:1036-01 Moderate: Texlive Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey March 31, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A substantial texlive patch addressing security vulnerabilities is now released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7; key information included.
An update for texlive is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

The texlive packages contain TeXLive, an implementation of TeX for Linux or UNIX systems.
Security Fix(es):
* texlive: Buffer overflow in t1_check_unusual_charstring function in writet1.c (CVE-2018-17407)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.8 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update buffer overflow red hat texlive

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-17407 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.8_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: texlive-2012-45.20130427_r30134.el7.src.rpm
noarch: texlive-ae-svn15878.1.4-45.el7.noarch.rpm texlive-algorithms-svn15878.0.1-45.el7.noarch.rpm texlive-amscls-svn29207.0-45.el7.noarch.rpm texlive-amsfonts-svn29208.3.04-45.el7.noarch.rpm texlive-amsmath-svn29327.2.14-45.el7.noarch.rpm texlive-anysize-svn15878.0-45.el7.noarch.rpm texlive-attachfile-svn21866.v1.5b-45.el7.noarch.rpm texlive-avantgar-svn28614.0-45.el7.noarch.rpm texlive-babel-svn24756.3.8m-45.el7.noarch.rpm texlive-babelbib-svn25245.1.31-45.el7.noarch.rpm texlive-base-2012-45.20130427_r30134.el7.noarch.rpm texlive-beamer-svn29349.3.26-45.el7.noarch.rpm texlive-bera-svn20031.0-45.el7.noarch.rpm texlive-beton-svn15878.0-45.el7.noarch.rpm texlive-bibtex-svn26689.0.99d-45.el7.noarch.rpm texlive-bookman-svn28614.0-45.el7.noarch.rpm texlive-booktabs-svn15878.1.61803-45.el7.noarch.rpm texlive-breakurl-svn15878.1.30-45.el7.noarch.rpm texlive-caption-svn29026.3.3__2013_02_03_-45.el7.noarch.rpm texlive-carlisle-svn18258.0-45.el7.noarch.rpm texlive-charter-svn15878.0-45.el7.noarch.rpm texlive-chngcntr-svn17157.1.0a-45.el7.noarch.rpm texlive-cite-svn19955.5.3-45.el7.noarch.rpm texlive-cm-lgc-svn28250.0.5-45.el7.noarch.rpm texlive-cm-super-svn15878.0-45.el7.noarch.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:1036-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1036
Issue date: 2020-03-31

Topic

An update for texlive is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update buffer overflow red hat texlive

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - noarch, ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - noarch, ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1632802 - CVE-2018-17407 texlive: Buffer overflow in t1_check_unusual_charstring function in writet1.c

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