Tex Live 944e257 has a NULL pointer dereference in texk/web2c/pdftexdir/writet1.c. NOTE: this is disputed because it should be categorized as a usability problem.

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

  - Tex Live 944e257 has a NULL pointer dereference in texk/web2c/pdftexdir/writet1.c. NOTE: this is disputed     because it should be categorized as a usability problem. (CVE-2023-46048)

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

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:1310-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2023-46048: Fixed NULL pointer dereference in texk/web2c/pdftexdir/writet1.c (bsc#1222126)
    - CVE-2023-46051: Fixed NULL pointer dereference in texk/web2c/pdftexdir/tounicode.c (bsc#1222127)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:1296-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2023-46048: Fixed null pointer dereference in texk/web2c/pdftexdir/writet1.c (bsc#1222126)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
258534	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-46048	Nessus	Misc.	medium
193391	SUSE SLED15: libkpathsea6 / libptexenc1 / libsynctex2 / libtexlua53-5 / etc (SUSE-SU-2024:1310-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
193354	SUSE SLES12: libkpathsea6 / libptexenc1 / texlive / texlive-bibtex-bin / etc (SUSE-SU-2024:1296-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium

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