Ubuntu Security Notices
USN-3788-1

USN-3788-1: Tex Live vulnerabilities

Publication date

11 October 2018

Overview

Several security issues were fixed in Tex Live.

Releases

18.04 LTS 16.04 LTS 14.04 LTS

Packages

texlive-bin - TeX Live: path search library for TeX (development part)

Details

Jakub Wilk discovered that Tex Live incorrectly handled certain files.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2015-5700)

It was discovered that Tex Live incorrectly handled certain files.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2018-17407)

Jakub Wilk discovered that Tex Live incorrectly handled certain files.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2015-5700)

It was discovered that Tex Live incorrectly handled certain files.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2018-17407)

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release	Package Version
18.04 bionic	texlive-binaries – 2017.20170613.44572-8ubuntu0.1
16.04 xenial	texlive-binaries – 2015.20160222.37495-1ubuntu0.1
14.04 trusty	texlive-binaries – 2013.20130729.30972-2ubuntu0.1

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References

USN-3788-2

USN-3788-2