CVE-2018-17407 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in TEX Live

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer10 documents7 sources
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
OSV6.1
EPSS
1.4%
top 19.84%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
4
TUG TEX LiveDebian Texlive-binCanonical Ubuntu Linux+1 more
Timeline
PublishedSep 23
Latest updateMay 14

Description

An issue was discovered in t1_check_unusual_charstring functions in writet1.c files in TeX Live before 2018-09-21. A buffer overflow in the handling of Type 1 fonts allows arbitrary code execution when a malicious font is loaded by one of the vulnerable tools: pdflatex, pdftex, dvips, or luatex.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages2 packages

▶NVDtug/tex_live< 2018-09-21
▶debiandebian/texlive-bin< texlive-bin 2018.20180907.48586-2 (bookworm)

Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0, 9.0, Ubuntu Linux 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 18.10

Patches

Patch: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-g32p-2jpf-2cg9: An issue was discovered in t1_check_unusual_charstring functions in writet1↗2022-05-14
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OSV
texlive-bin vulnerabilities↗2018-10-11
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OSV
CVE-2018-17407: An issue was discovered in t1_check_unusual_charstring functions in writet1↗2018-09-23
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📋Vendor Advisories

4
Ubuntu
Tex Live-bin vulnerability↗2018-10-23
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Ubuntu
Tex Live vulnerabilities↗2018-10-11
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Red Hat
texlive: Buffer overflow in t1_check_unusual_charstring function in writet1.c↗2018-09-23
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Debian
CVE-2018-17407: texlive-bin - An issue was discovered in t1_check_unusual_charstring functions in writet1.c fi...↗2018
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-17407 texlive: Buffer overflow in t1_check_unusual_charstring function in writet1.c↗2018-09-25
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-17407 texlive: Buffer overflow in t1_check_unusual_charstring function in writet1.c [fedora-all]↗2018-09-25
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