Format string vulnerability in the CmdKeywords function in funct1.c in latex2rtf before 2.3.10 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in the \keywords command in a crafted TeX file.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - Format string vulnerability in the CmdKeywords function in funct1.c in latex2rtf before 2.3.10 allows     remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in the \keywords command in a     crafted TeX file. (CVE-2015-8106)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Update to 2.3.10 for CVE-2015-8106

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
255162	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2015-8106	Nessus	Misc.	high
90467	Fedora 23 : latex2rtf-2.3.10-1.fc23 (2016-b9368247d4)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
90458	Fedora 22 : latex2rtf-2.3.10-1.fc22 (2016-246417376c)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
90375	Fedora 24 : latex2rtf-2.3.10-1.fc24 (2016-3e320f369e)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high

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