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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2016-10243: texlive security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2016-10243: texlive security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/02/2017
Created
09/26/2019
Added
09/25/2019
Modified
09/25/2019

Description

TeX Live allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by leveraging inclusion of mpost in shell_escape_commands in the texmf.cnf config file.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-texlive
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-texlive-base
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-texlive-kpathsea-lib

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