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Red Hat: texlive security update critical details on vulnerabilities

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Calendar Grey June 19, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A critical Texlive security update for Red Hat distributions addresses vulnerabilities that may lead to unauthorized access or system compromise
An update for texlive is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Update Services for SAP Solutions, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update ...

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: arbitrary code execution allows document complied with older version (CVE-2023-32700)
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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue important update texlive updated packages archived information

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-32700 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.1):
Source: texlive-20180414-15.el8_1.src.rpm
aarch64: texlive-20180414-15.el8_1.aarch64.rpm texlive-bibtex-20180414-15.el8_1.aarch64.rpm texlive-bibtex-debuginfo-20180414-15.el8_1.aarch64.rpm texlive-debuginfo-20180414-15.el8_1.aarch64.rpm texlive-debugsource-20180414-15.el8_1.aarch64.rpm texlive-dvipdfmx-20180414-15.el8_1.aarch64.rpm texlive-dvipng-20180414-15.el8_1.aarch64.rpm texlive-dvipng-debuginfo-20180414-15.el8_1.aarch64.rpm texlive-dvips-20180414-15.el8_1.aarch64.rpm texlive-dvips-debuginfo-20180414-15.el8_1.aarch64.rpm texlive-dvisvgm-20180414-15.el8_1.aarch64.rpm texlive-dvisvgm-debuginfo-20180414-15.el8_1.aarch64.rpm texlive-fontware-20180414-15.el8_1.aarch64.rpm texlive-fontware-debuginfo-20180414-15.el8_1.aarch64.rpm texlive-gsftopk-20180414-15.el8_1.aarch64.rpm texlive-gsftopk-debuginfo-20180414-15.el8_1.aarch64.rpm texlive-kpathsea-20180414-15.el8_1.aarch64.rpm texlive-kpathsea-debuginfo-20180414-15.el8_1.aarch64.rpm texlive-lib-20180414-15.el8_1.aarch64.rpm texlive-lib-debuginfo-20180414-15.el8_1.aarch64.rpm texlive-luatex-20180414-15.el8_1.aarch64.rpm texlive-luatex-debuginfo-20180414-15.el8_1.aarch64.rpm texlive-makeindex-20180414-15.el8_1.aarch64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Severity
important
Lowest
Low
Medium
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Critical

Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:3661-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:3661
Issue date: 2023-06-19

Topic

An update for texlive is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, RedHat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Update Services for SAP Solutions, Red HatEnterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2Telecommunications Update Service, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 UpdateServices for SAP Solutions, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced MissionCritical Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 TelecommunicationsUpdate Service, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Update Services for SAPSolutions, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support, Red HatEnterprise Linux 9, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Extended UpdateSupport.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue important update texlive updated packages archived information

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder EUS (v.8.6) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder EUS (v.9.0) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream AUS (v. 8.2) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream AUS (v.8.4) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.1) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v. 8.2) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v.8.4) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.0) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream TUS (v. 8.2) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream TUS (v.8.4) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 9) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2208943 - CVE-2023-32700 texlive: arbitrary code execution allows document complied with older version

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