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Ubuntu 23.04: USN-6115-1 Critical: TeX Live Shell Execution Threat

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Calendar Grey May 30, 2023
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Mitigating the TeX Live security flaw in Ubuntu which permits unauthorized command execution through specially designed TeX documents.
LuaTeX (TeX Live) could be made to run programs as your login if it compiled a specially crafted TeX file.

Summary

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Topics Covered

security advisory vulnerability update instructions arbitrary commands shell escape texlive-binaries ubuntu 23.04

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 23.04: texlive-binaries 2022.20220321.62855-5ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 22.10: texlive-binaries 2022.20220321.62855-4ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS: texlive-binaries 2021.20210626.59705-1ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS: texlive-binaries 2019.20190605.51237-3ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: texlive-binaries 2017.20170613.44572-8ubuntu0.2 In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6115-1

CVE-2023-32700

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May 30, 2023

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security advisory vulnerability update instructions arbitrary commands shell escape texlive-binaries ubuntu 23.04

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/texlive-bin/2022.20220321.62855-5ubuntu0.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/texlive-bin/2022.20220321.62855-4ubuntu0.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/texlive-bin/2021.20210626.59705-1ubuntu0.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/texlive-bin/2019.20190605.51237-3ubuntu0.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/texlive-bin/2017.20170613.44572-8ubuntu0.2

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