CVE-2016-10243 — Improper Input Validation in Texlive-base

CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation8 documents7 sources
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
EPSS
9.9%
top 6.98%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
4
Debian Texlive-baseDebian Texlive-binDebian Linux+1 more
Timeline
PublishedMay 2
Latest updateMay 17

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages2 packages

▶debiandebian/texlive-bin< texlive-base 2016.20161130-1 (bookworm)
▶debiandebian/texlive-base< texlive-base 2016.20161130-1 (bookworm)

Also affects: Debian Linux 7.0, 8.0, Fedora 25, 26

Patches

Patch: www.tug.org ↗Patch: www.tug.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-7674-jxfw-vhf5: TeX Live allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by leveraging inclusion of mpost in shell_escape_commands in the texmf↗2022-05-17
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OSV
CVE-2016-10243: TeX Live allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by leveraging inclusion of mpost in shell_escape_commands in the texmf↗2017-05-02
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
TeX Live vulnerability↗2017-08-22
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Red Hat
texlive: mpost allows to run non-whitelisted external programs↗2016-11-28
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Debian
CVE-2016-10243: texlive-base - TeX Live allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by leveraging inc...↗2016
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-10243 texlive: mpost allows to run non-whitelisted external programs [fedora-all]↗2017-03-06
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Bugzilla
CVE-2016-10243 texlive: mpost allows to run non-whitelisted external programs↗2017-03-06
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