Description
Buffer overflow in the readline function in util/texindex.c, as used by the (1) texi2dvi and (2) texindex commands, in texinfo 4.8 and earlier allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Texinfo file.
Affected products
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n/aaffected
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22725 ↗
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:203 ↗
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0727.html ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22777 ↗
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-379-1 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20959 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22995 ↗
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4412 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464745/100/0/threaded ↗
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_28_sr.html ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23015 ↗
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1267 ↗
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-810 ↗
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200611-16.xml ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23335 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23112 ↗
- http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/esx-2559638-patch.html ↗
- http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0063/ ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24788 ↗
- http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/texinfo/texinfo/util/texindex.c?r1=1.16&r2=1.17 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452723/100/0/threaded ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22898 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22929 ↗
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10893 ↗
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30158 ↗
- http://www.openpkg.org/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2006.034-texinfo.html ↗
- http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/esx-1121906-patch.html ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22798 ↗
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1219 ↗