gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200603-02.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200603-02">
  <title>teTeX, pTeX, CSTeX: Multiple overflows in included XPdf code</title>
  <synopsis>
    CSTeTeX, pTeX, and teTeX include vulnerable XPdf code to handle PDF files,
    making them vulnerable to the execution of arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">tetex</product>
  <announced>2006-03-04</announced>
  <revised count="01">2006-03-04</revised>
  <bug>115775</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-text/tetex" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.0.2-r8</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.0.2-r8</vulnerable>
    </package>
    <package name="app-text/cstetex" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.0.2-r2</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.0.2-r2</vulnerable>
    </package>
    <package name="app-text/ptex" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">3.1.5-r1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">3.1.5-r1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    teTex is a complete TeX distribution. It is used for creating and
    manipulating LaTeX documents. CSTeX is a TeX distribution with Czech
    and Slovak support. pTeX is and ASCII publishing TeX distribution.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    CSTeX, teTex, and pTeX include XPdf code to handle PDF files. This
    XPdf code is vulnerable to several heap overflows (GLSA 200512-08) as
    well as several buffer and integer overflows discovered by Chris Evans
    (CESA-2005-003).
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    An attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted PDF
    file with teTeX, pTeX or CSTeX, potentially resulting in the execution
    of arbitrary code with the rights of the user running the affected
    application.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All teTex users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-text/tetex-2.0.2-r8"</code>
    <p>
    All CSTeX users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-text/cstetex-2.0.2-r2"</code>
    <p>
    All pTeX users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-text/ptex-3.1.5-r1"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-3193">CVE-2005-3193</uri>
    <uri link="https://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200512-08.xml">GLSA 200512-08</uri>
    <uri link="http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2005-003.txt">CESA-2005-003</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2006-02-16T20:57:52Z">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2006-02-17T12:11:23Z">
    dragonheart
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2006-03-04T16:30:04Z">
    koon
  </metadata>
</glsa>