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GCVE-VVD-MAGEIA-2017-127

GCVE-VVD-MAGEIA-2017-127
Advisory Published
Vulnetix · Advisory published December 21, 2017
It was discovered that texlive whitelists mpost as an external program to be run from within the TeX source code (called \write18). Since mpost allows to specify other programs to be run, an attacker can take advantage of this flaw for arbitrary code execution when compiling a TeX document (CVE-2016-10243).

Affected Products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
Mageiaghostscript0 (affected), 9.22-1.1.mga5 (unaffected)
Mageiaghostscript0 (affected), 9.22-1.1.mga6 (unaffected)
Mageiatexlive0 (affected), 20130530-21.1.mga5 (unaffected), 0 (affected), 20130530-21.1.mga5 (unaffected)

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