| Secunia ID |
SA48001
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| CVE-ID |
CVE-2011-0764
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| Release Date |
17 Feb 2012
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| Criticality |
Moderately Critical
Typically used for remotely exploitable Denial of Service vulnerabilities against services like FTP, HTTP, and SMTP, and for vulnerabilities that allow system compromises but require user interaction.
This rating is also used for vulnerabilities allowing system compromise on LANs in services like SMB, RPC, NFS, LPD and similar services that are not intended for use over the Internet.
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| Solution Status |
Unpatched
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| Software |
TeX Live
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| Where |
From remote
"From remote" describes other vulnerabilities where the attack vector doesn't require access to the system or a local network.
This category covers services that are acceptable to expose to the Internet (e.g. HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP). It also covers client applications used on the Internet and certain vulnerabilities where it is reasonable to assume that a security conscious user can be tricked into performing certain actions.
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| Impact |
System access
This covers vulnerabilities where malicious people are able to gain system access and execute arbitrary code with the privileges of a local user.
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| Description |
Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in TeX Live, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. The application bundles a vulnerable version of t1lib. For more information see vulnerability #3 in: SA43491 The vulnerabilities are reported in version texlive-2011.0. Other versions may also be affected.
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| Solution |
Do not open files from untrusted sources.
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| Reported by |
Jonathan Brossard
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| Original Advisory |
Jonathan Brossard: http://www.toucan-system.com/advisories/tssa-2011-01.txt
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