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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2019-18604): TeX Live vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2019-18604): TeX Live vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/29/2019
Created
03/16/2024
Added
03/15/2024
Modified
03/15/2024

Description

In axohelp.c before 1.3 in axohelp in axodraw2 before 2.1.1b, as distributed in TeXLive and other collections, sprintf is mishandled.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-texlive-binaries

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