PT-2017-6445 · Tex Users · Tex Live

Siddharth Sharma · Published 2017-10-06 · Updated 2017-11-01 · CVE-2015-0296

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

1.2

Low

Base vector

AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions texlive versions 3.1.20140525 r34255.fc21 and 6.20131226 r32488.fc20

Description The issue allows local users to delete arbitrary files via a crafted file in the user's home directory. This is due to a problem in the pre-install script in the affected texlive packages.

Recommendations For texlive version 3.1.20140525 r34255.fc21, update to a version that fixes the issue with the pre-install script. For texlive version 6.20131226 r32488.fc20, update to a version that fixes the issue with the pre-install script. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting write access to sensitive files in the user's home directory until a patch is available.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-0296

Affected Products

Tex Live

References · 6

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154198.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-0296 · Security Note
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154424.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/72826 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/27/6 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1197082 · Note