Buffer overflow in BibTeX 0.99 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) via a long .bib bibliography file.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201206-28 (TeX Live: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in texlive-core. Please       review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
  Impact :

    These vulnerabilities might allow user-assisted remote attackers to       execute arbitrary code via a specially crafted DVI file, or cause a       Denial of Service.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

Multiple vulnerabilities has been discovered and fixed in tetex :

Buffer overflow in BibTeX 0.99 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) via a long .bib bibliography file (CVE-2009-1284).

Integer overflow in the ObjectStream::ObjectStream function in XRef.cc in Xpdf 3.x before 3.02pl4 and Poppler before 0.12.1, as used in GPdf, kdegraphics KPDF, CUPS pdftops, and teTeX, might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF document that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow (CVE-2009-3608).

Integer overflow in dvips in TeX Live 2009 and earlier, and teTeX, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted virtual font (VF) file associated with a DVI file (CVE-2010-0827).

Multiple array index errors in set.c in dvipng 1.11 and 1.12, and teTeX, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a malformed DVI file (CVE-2010-0829).

Integer overflow in the predospecial function in dospecial.c in dvips in (1) TeX Live and (2) teTeX might allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted DVI file that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third-party information (CVE-2010-0739).

Multiple integer overflows in dvipsk/dospecial.c in dvips in TeX Live 2009 and earlier, and teTeX, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a special command in a DVI file, related to the (1) predospecial and (2) bbdospecial functions, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-0739 (CVE-2010-1440).

Packages for 2008.0 and 2009.0 are provided due to the Extended Maintenance Program for those products.

The corrected packages solves these problems.

It was discovered that TeX Live incorrectly handled certain long .bib bibliography files. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted bib file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash. This issue only affected Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, 9.04 and 9.10. (CVE-2009-1284)

Marc Schoenefeld, Karel Srot and Ludwig Nussel discovered that TeX Live incorrectly handled certain malformed dvi files. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted dvi file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2010-0739, CVE-2010-1440)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that TeX Live incorrectly handled certain malformed dvi files. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted dvi file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program.
(CVE-2010-0827).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

- Fri Oct 23 2009 Jindrich Novy <jnovy at redhat.com>     2007-46

    - add missing dependency on kpathsea

    - Thu Oct 15 2009 Jindrich Novy <jnovy at redhat.com>       2007-45

    - make kpathsea not dependent on texlive

    - fix lacheck again (#451513)

    - fix dvips configuration (#467542)

    - update kpathsea description and summary (#519257)

    - use upstream patch to fix pool overflow CVE-2009-1284       (#492136)

    - don't complain if the pdvipsk hunks touching config.ps       don't apply

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

- Fri Oct 23 2009 Jindrich Novy <jnovy at redhat.com>     2007-46

    - add missing dependency on kpathsea

    - Thu Oct 15 2009 Jindrich Novy <jnovy at redhat.com>       2007-45

    - make kpathsea not dependent on texlive

    - fix lacheck again (#451513)

    - fix dvips configuration (#467542)

    - update kpathsea description and summary (#519257)

    - use upstream patch to fix pool overflow CVE-2009-1284       (#492136)

    - don't complain if the pdvipsk hunks touching config.ps       don't apply

    - avoid clashes with getline() from glibc

    - texlive-east-asian now requires       texlive-texmf-east-asian (#487258)

    - do not attempt to remove old fonts via cron in       /var/lib/texmf, fonts are stored in       ~/.texlive2007/texmf-var per-user (#477833, #463975,       #453468)

  - use correct paths in brp-* post install scriptlets     (#468179)

    - fix build with gcc4.4

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
59701	GLSA-201206-28 : TeX Live: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	medium
46330	Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : tetex (MDVSA-2010:094)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	high
46254	Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 9.04 / 9.10 / 10.04 LTS : texlive-bin vulnerabilities (USN-937-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
42787	Fedora 11 : texlive-2007-46.fc11 (2009-10857)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
42786	Fedora 10 : texlive-2007-46.fc10 (2009-10730)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium

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