vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-3401-1 (CVE-2016-10243): TeX Live vulnerability

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Mar 8, 2017
Added
Aug 22, 2017
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

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.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-texlive-baseubuntu-upgrade-texlive-latex-base
Title
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