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It was discovered that the mpost program from the shell_escape_commands list is capable of executing arbitrary external programs during the conversion of .tex files. The responsible function is runpopen() (texmfmp.c).
Impact :
A remote attacker, by enticing a user to open a specially crafted .tex file, could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process.
Workaround :
There is no known workaround at this time.
Max CVSS | 0 |
Min CVSS | 0 |
Total Count | 2 |
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