PT-2020-22715 · Tex Users · Texlive-Filesystem
Published
2020-02-27
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Updated
2020-02-27
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Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
texlive-filesystem (affected versions not specified)
Description
The issue concerns security fixes for texlive-filesystem, including changing the default user for ls-R files and font cache directories to user nobody, switching to rm instead of safe-rm or safe-rmdir to avoid race conditions, and making the cron script more failsafe.
Recommendations
At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
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Affected Products
Texlive-Filesystem