PT-2016-3854 · Latex2Rtf · Latex2Rtf

Whennings · Published 2015-11-19 · Updated 2016-05-18 · CVE-2015-8106

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

9.3

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions latex2rtf versions prior to 2.3.10

Description The issue is related to a format string vulnerability in the CmdKeywords function. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in the keywords command in a crafted TeX file.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.3.10, update to version 2.3.10 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the use of the keywords command in TeX files until the update is applied.

Fix

Use of Externally-Controlled Format String

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-134

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-8106

MGASA-2015-0453

Affected Products

Latex2Rtf

References · 18

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/181677.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/181276.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8106 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8106 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8106 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8106 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8106 · Security Note
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/181725.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2015-0453 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2015-8106 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8106 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0453.html · Security Note
• http://sourceforge.net/p/latex2rtf/code/1152/tree//trunk/funct1.c?diff=50900fed34309d3c639c868f:1151 · Note
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17164 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/16/3 · Note