GCVE-110-MAGEIA-2018-397

Advisory Published

Vulnetix · Advisory published October 14, 2018

Updated texlive packages fix security vulnerability: A buffer overflow in the handling of Type 1 fonts allowed arbitrary code execution when a malicious font is loaded by one of the vulnerable tools: pdflatex, pdftex, dvips, or luatex (CVE-2018-17407).

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Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions	Platforms
Mageia	texlive	0 (affected), 20160523-7.1.mga6 (unaffected)	—

References

Updated texlive packages fix security vulnerability

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Updated texlive packages fix security vulnerability

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Updated texlive packages fix security vulnerability

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