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ghsa-g32p-2jpf-2cg9

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-14 01:59

Modified

2022-05-14 01:59

Severity ?

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

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.

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CVE-2018-17407 (GCVE-0-2018-17407)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2018-09-23 21:00

Modified

2024-08-05 10:47

Severity ?

CWE

n/a

Summary

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.

References

URL

Tags

	https://github.com/TeX-Live/texlive-source/commit/6ed0077520e2b0da1fd060c7f88db7b2e6068e4c	x_refsource_MISC
	https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4299	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN
	https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2018/msg00230.html	x_refsource_MISC
	https://usn.ubuntu.com/3788-1/	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
	https://usn.ubuntu.com/3788-2/	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

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