metadata/glsa/glsa-200711-34.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">

<glsa id="200711-34">
  <title>CSTeX: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>
    Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in CSTeX, possibly allowing to
    execute arbitrary code or overwrite arbitrary files.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">cstetex</product>
  <announced>November 25, 2007</announced>
  <revised>November 25, 2007: 01</revised>
  <bug>196673</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-text/cstetex" auto="no" arch="*">
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.0.2-r2</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    CSTeX is a TeX distribution with Czech and Slovak support. It is used
    for creating and manipulating LaTeX documents.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Multiple issues were found in the teTeX 2 codebase that CSTeX builds
    upon (GLSA 200709-17, GLSA 200711-26). CSTeX also includes vulnerable
    code from the GD library (GLSA 200708-05), from Xpdf (GLSA 200709-12,
    GLSA 200711-22) and from T1Lib (GLSA 200710-12).
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    Remote attackers could possibly execute arbitrary code and local
    attackers could possibly overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges
    of the user running CSTeX via multiple vectors.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    CSTeX is not maintained upstream, so the package was masked in Portage.
    We recommend that users unmerge CSTeX:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --unmerge app-text/cstetex</code>
    <p>
    As an alternative, users should upgrade their systems to use teTeX or
    TeX Live with its Babel packages.
    </p>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="/security/en/glsa/glsa-200708-05.xml">GLSA 200708-05</uri>
    <uri link="/security/en/glsa/glsa-200709-12.xml">GLSA 200709-12</uri>
    <uri link="/security/en/glsa/glsa-200709-17.xml">GLSA 200709-17</uri>
    <uri link="/security/en/glsa/glsa-200710-12.xml">GLSA 200710-12</uri>
    <uri link="/security/en/glsa/glsa-200711-22.xml">GLSA 200711-22</uri>
    <uri link="/security/en/glsa/glsa-200711-26.xml">GLSA 200711-26</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:12:34 +0000">
    rbu
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:14:43 +0000">
    rbu
  </metadata>
</glsa>