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Out-of-Bounds Affecting texlive-bin package, versions <2018.20180907.48586-2

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.23% (62nd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-TEXLIVEBIN-526421
  • published 23 Sep 2018
  • disclosed 23 Sep 2018
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Introduced: 23 Sep 2018

CVE-2018-17407 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-119 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 texlive-bin to version 2018.20180907.48586-2 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.

An issue was discovered in t1_check_unusual_charstring functions in writet1.c files in TeX Live before 2018-09-21. A buffer overflow in the handling of Type 1 fonts allows arbitrary code execution when a malicious font is loaded by one of the vulnerable tools: pdflatex, pdftex, dvips, or luatex.