Summary: | <app-text/texlive-core-2008-r7: bibtex invalid reads/writes when parsing big *.bib file (CVE-2009-1284) | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Security | Reporter: | Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) <rbu> |
Component: | Vulnerabilities | Assignee: | Gentoo Security <security> |
Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
Severity: | normal | ||
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
URL: | https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492136 | ||
Whiteboard: | B2 [glsa] | ||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
Bug Depends on: | 227443 | ||
Bug Blocks: |
Description
Robert Buchholz (RETIRED)
2009-04-02 10:30:10 UTC
> Do we want to provide an upgrade path to teTeX, No. See bug 227443 for its current status. Ok, adding that bug as a blocker then. (In reply to comment #0) > We ship bibtex in teTeX, TeX Live and pTeX. Since pTeX is based on teTeX 2, I > do not know whether it is affected. The other two products seem to be. Confirming that bibtex 0.99c as shipped in app-text/texlive-core-2008-r4 is vulnerable. CVE-2009-1284 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2009-1284): Buffer overflow in BibTeX 0.99 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) via a long .bib bibliography file. treecleaner this from the tree. Do what you would like now. Karl posted a patch on the texlive ml fixing this issue; it is now applied in texlive-core-2008-r7, sorry for the delay. Split ptex off to bug 282874 to make things a little less complicated here. Alexis can -r7 go stable? (In reply to comment #7) > Alexis can -r7 go stable? Yes Arches, please test and mark stable: =app-text/texlive-core-2008-r7 Target keywords : "alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 ppc ppc64 s390 sh sparc x86" x86 stable amd64 stable alpha/arm/ia64/s390/sh/sparc stabl Stable for HPPA. ppc64 done ppc stable GLSA request filed. Thank you all. <app-text/texlive-core-2008-r7 is gone from tree long time ago. Removing tex herd from cc. This issue was resolved and addressed in GLSA 201206-28 at http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-28.xml by GLSA coordinator Stefan Behte (craig). |