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SUSE: 2018:3033-1 Important: Texlive Buffer Overflow Risk

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Calendar Grey October 5, 2018
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SUSE has issued a security patch for texlive to resolve a significant vulnerability related to buffer overflow which could lead to arbitrary code execution.
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 Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP3: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP3-2018-2164=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2018-2164=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP3-2018-2164=1 Package List:

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References

#1109673

Cross- CVE-2018-17407

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3

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

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1109673

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:3033-1
Rating: important

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