MGASA-2015-0453

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    MGASA-2015-0453

    Published: 19 Nov 2015Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2015-8106

    Summary: Updated latex2rtf packages fix security vulnerability

    Details: A format string vulnerability was found in CmdKeywords function when processing \keywords command in tex file. When the user runs latex2rtf with malicious crafted tex file, an attacker can execute arbitrary code. The variable 'keywords' in the function CmdKeywords may hold a malicious input string, which can be used as a format argument of vsnprintf (CVE-2015-8106).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0453.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17164, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/16/3, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2015-8106

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: latex2rtf

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/latex2rtf?arch=source&distro=mageia-5

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.3.8-3.1.mga5

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    User Interaction
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    Integrity
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    Availability
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