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<glsa id="200611-16">
<title>Texinfo: Buffer overflow</title>
<synopsis>
Texinfo is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that could lead to the execution
of arbitrary code.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">texinfo</product>
<announced>November 21, 2006</announced>
<revised>November 21, 2006: 01</revised>
<bug>154316</bug>
<access>remote</access>
<affected>
<package name="sys-apps/texinfo" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">4.8-r5</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">4.8-r5</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>
Texinfo is the official documentation system of the GNU project.
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>
Miloslav Trmac from Red Hat discovered a buffer overflow in the
"readline()" function of texindex.c. The "readline()" function is
called by the texi2dvi and texindex commands.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>
By enticing a user to open a specially crafted Texinfo file, an
attacker could execute arbitrary code with the rights of the user
running Texinfo.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>
There is no known workaround at this time.
</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>
All Texinfo users should upgrade to the latest version:
</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=sys-apps/texinfo-4.8-r5&quot;</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4810">CVE-2006-4810</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Wed, 15 Nov 2006 21:23:53 +0000">
vorlon
</metadata>
<metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Wed, 15 Nov 2006 21:39:27 +0000">
vorlon
</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Thu, 16 Nov 2006 14:40:00 +0000">
jaervosz
</metadata>
</glsa>