Description
TeX Live allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by leveraging inclusion of mpost in shell_escape_commands in the texmf.cnf config file.
Affected products
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n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- https://scumjr.github.io/2016/11/28/pwning-coworkers-thanks-to-latex/ ↗
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VL6PUKPWEXYIPIAZRIX5ZLQWCSALVLFP/ ↗
- https://www.tug.org/svn/texlive?view=revision&revision=42605 ↗
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-07 ↗
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3803 ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/03/05/1 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96593 ↗
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/B7CNJ4HKX7X6V7VMN3UCU7KPY6IX4XRB/ ↗