CVE-2018-17407

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-17407
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-17407.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-17407
Downstream
DEBIAN (1)
MGASA (1)
openSUSE (1)
RHSA (1)
SUSE (4)
UBUNTU (1)
Related
openSUSE (1)
SUSE (4)
Published
2018-09-23T21:29:00Z
Modified
2026-08-07T14:48:31Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

An issue was discovered in t1_check_unusual_charstring functions in writet1.c files in TeX Live before 2018-09-21. A buffer overflow in the handling of Type 1 fonts allows arbitrary code execution when a malicious font is loaded by one of the vulnerable tools: pdflatex, pdftex, dvips, or luatex.

Database specific 
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References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/tex-live/texlive-source

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/tex-live/texlive-source
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
6ed0077520e2b0da1fd060c7f88db7b2e6068e4c
Database specific
Show details 
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Affected versions

texlive-2018.*
texlive-2018.0

Database specific

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