Out-of-Bounds Affecting texlive-cjkutils-bin package, versions <2017.20170520.svn44143-11.8.4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.08% (82nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES150-TEXLIVECJKUTILSBIN-2760036
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed12 Oct 2018

Introduced: 12 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-17407  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.0 texlive-cjkutils-bin to version 2017.20170520.svn44143-11.8.4 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream texlive-cjkutils-bin package and not the texlive-cjkutils-bin package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.0 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.