MGASA-2017-0127

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    MGASA-2017-0127

    Published: 3 May 2017Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2016-10243

    Summary: Updated texlive packages fix security vulnerability

    Details: It was discovered that texlive whitelists mpost as an external program to be run from within the TeX source code (called \write18). Since mpost allows to specify other programs to be run, an attacker can take advantage of this flaw for arbitrary code execution when compiling a TeX document (CVE-2016-10243).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0127.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20401, https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3803

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: texlive

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

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -20130530-21.1.mga5

    Affected versions

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