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SUSE: 2022:4021-1 Critical Advisory for Texlive Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey February 21, 2019
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE Security Update: Security update for texlive __________________________________________________
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Summary

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) Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE 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: - SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7: zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-7-2019-458=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP2: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP2-2019-458=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-LTSS: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2019-458=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-BCL:

References

#1109673

Cross- CVE-2018-17407

Affected Products:

SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-BCL

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1-LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS

SUSE Enterprise Storage 4

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

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1109673

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:3033-2
Rating: important

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