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Improper Input Validation Affecting texlive-bin package, versions <2020.20200327.54578-2

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

Snyk's Security Team recommends NVD's CVSS assessment

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.24% (66th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-TEXLIVEBIN-530567
  • published 3 Nov 2019
  • disclosed 29 Oct 2019
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Introduced: 29 Oct 2019

CVE-2019-18604 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-20 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 texlive-bin to version 2020.20200327.54578-2 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.

In axohelp.c before 1.3 in axohelp in axodraw2 before 2.1.1b, as distributed in TeXLive and other collections, sprintf is mishandled.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

Recommended
9.8 critical
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High