glsa-201206-28.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201206-28">
  <title>TeX Live: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities were found in texlive-core, allowing
    attackers to execute arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">TeX Live</product>
  <announced>June 25, 2012</announced>
  <revised>June 25, 2012: 1</revised>
  <bug>264598</bug>
  <bug>324019</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-text/texlive-core" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2009-r2</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2009-r2</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>TeX Live is a complete TeX distribution.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in texlive-core. Please
      review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>These vulnerabilities might allow user-assisted remote attackers to
      execute arbitrary code via a specially-crafted DVI file, or cause a
      Denial of Service.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All texlive-core users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-text/texlive-core-2009-r2"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2009-1284">CVE-2009-1284</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-0739">CVE-2010-0739</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-0827">CVE-2010-0827</uri>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-1440">CVE-2010-1440</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata timestamp="Fri, 07 Oct 2011 23:37:59 +0000" tag="requester">
    underling
  </metadata>
  <metadata timestamp="Mon, 25 Jun 2012 18:50:51 +0000" tag="submitter">craig</metadata>
</glsa>