23/10/2018

USN-3788-2: Tex Live-bin vulnerability

First published: Tue Oct 23 2018(Updated: )

USN-3788-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Tex Live. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 18.10 Original advisory details: It was discovered that Tex Live incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-17407)

Affected Software	Affected Version	How to fix
All of
ubuntu/texlive-binaries	<2018.20180824.48463-1ubuntu0.1	2018.20180824.48463-1ubuntu0.1
Ubuntu Ubuntu	=18.10

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