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Posted on 21 September 2018
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-4299-1 security@debian.org
https://www.debian.org/security/ Yves-Alexis Perez
September 21, 2018 https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : texlive-bin
CVE : not yet available
Nick Roessler from the University of Pennsylvania has found a buffer overflow
in texlive-bin, the executables for TexLive, the popular distribution of TeX
document production system.
This buffer overflow can be used for arbitrary code execution by crafting a
special type1 font (.pfb) and provide it to users running pdf(la)tex, dvips or
luatex in a way that the font is loaded.
For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in
version 2016.20160513.41080.dfsg-2+deb9u1.
We recommend that you upgrade your texlive-bin packages.
For the detailed security status of texlive-bin please refer to
its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/texlive-bin
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
