CVE-2023-46051 Affecting texlive-bin-devel package, versions <2021.20210325-150600.38.3.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.26% (17th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES157-TEXLIVEBINDEVEL-18915372
  • published18 Aug 2026
  • disclosed17 Aug 2026

Introduced: 17 Aug 2026

CVE-2023-46051  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.7 texlive-bin-devel to version 2021.20210325-150600.38.3.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream texlive-bin-devel package and not the texlive-bin-devel package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.7 relevant fixed versions and status.

TeX Live 944e257 allows a NULL pointer dereference in texk/web2c/pdftexdir/tounicode.c. NOTE: this is disputed because it should be categorized as a usability problem.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1