1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-937-1

USN-937-1: TeX Live vulnerabilities

Publication date

6 May 2010

Overview

TeX Live vulnerabilities

Releases

Packages

Details

It was discovered that TeX Live incorrectly handled certain long .bib
bibliography files. If a user or automated system were tricked into
processing a specially crafted bib file, an attacker could cause a denial
of service via application crash. This issue only affected Ubuntu 8.04 LTS,
9.04 and 9.10. (CVE-2009-1284)

Marc Schoenefeld, Karel Šrot and Ludwig Nussel discovered that TeX Live
incorrectly handled certain malformed dvi files. If a user or automated
system were tricked into processing a specially crafted dvi file, an
attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly
execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the
program. (CVE-2010-0739, CVE-2010-1440)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that TeX Live incorrectly handled certain
malformed dvi files. If a user or...

It was discovered that TeX Live incorrectly handled certain long .bib
bibliography files. If a user or automated system were tricked into
processing a specially crafted bib file, an attacker could cause a denial
of service via application crash. This issue only affected Ubuntu 8.04 LTS,
9.04 and 9.10. (CVE-2009-1284)

Marc Schoenefeld, Karel Šrot and Ludwig Nussel discovered that TeX Live
incorrectly handled certain malformed dvi files. If a user or automated
system were tricked into processing a specially crafted dvi file, an
attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly
execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the
program. (CVE-2010-0739, CVE-2010-1440)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that TeX Live incorrectly handled certain
malformed dvi files. If a user or automated system were tricked into
processing a specially crafted dvi file, an attacker could cause a denial
of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with
the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2010-0827)

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
9.10 karmic texlive-base-bin –  2007.dfsg.2-7ubuntu1.1
9.04 jaunty texlive-base-bin –  2007.dfsg.2-4ubuntu2.1
8.04 hardy texlive-base-bin –  2007.dfsg.1-2ubuntu0.1
10.04 lucid texlive-binaries –  2009-5ubuntu0.1

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