Out-of-Bounds Affecting texlive-bin package, versions <2009-1
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1.28% (87th
percentile)
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- published 9 Apr 2009
- disclosed 9 Apr 2009
Introduced: 9 Apr 2009
CVE-2009-1284 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:11 texlive-bin to version 2009-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream texlive-bin package and not the texlive-bin package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.
Buffer overflow in BibTeX 0.99 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) via a long .bib bibliography file.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-1284
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=520920
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-28.xml
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg00505.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg00507.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/04/01/8
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492136
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34445
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-937-1
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