Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2018-17407: texlive security update
7
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
09/23/2018
01/20/2021
01/20/2021
01/20/2021
Description
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.
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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