Technical Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Fedora, which could be exploited by attackers or malicious users to execute arbitrary code or bypass security restrictions. These issues are caused by errors in teTeX. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2007-3896 - VUPEN/ADV-2007-3786 - VUPEN/ADV-2007-2721

Affected Products

Fedora Core 6

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages :

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/6/

add5e237e0760ffbb35cba67af08415b0b53ae47 SRPMS/tetex-3.0-36.fc6.src.rpm
add5e237e0760ffbb35cba67af08415b0b53ae47 noarch/tetex-3.0-36.fc6.src.rpm
6563dc6fb1d4bc8ddfe3ed8d976495551a1f84c9 ppc/tetex-dvips-3.0-36.fc6.ppc.rpm
ff9a24ac0580ee04c1dd4b1da953272dec4568d0 ppc/tetex-doc-3.0-36.fc6.ppc.rpm
ba0bd3d17a692260830058c85294f1099e8333b6 ppc/debug/tetex-debuginfo-3.0-36.fc6.ppc.rpm
dfee8bb0576c7e7cff0bbc54a3c6cd59fff87987 ppc/tetex-xdvi-3.0-36.fc6.ppc.rpm
db6fc5dd875ff55012106ec439abe20be620868b ppc/tetex-afm-3.0-36.fc6.ppc.rpm
2b79bf9dccfab035db29e73f9fc54710095c966c ppc/tetex-latex-3.0-36.fc6.ppc.rpm
83e37c88a1de48afed825914e8ac610a8c97bcc3 ppc/tetex-3.0-36.fc6.ppc.rpm
e6e9731c0f2df3d43d7be2a8f2760560d7057db5 ppc/tetex-fonts-3.0-36.fc6.ppc.rpm
6bc20f047dd71248b239daec7bce57166a3caa82 x86_64/tetex-doc-3.0-36.fc6.x86_64.rpm
a79f0236c530eb163b69c68497e7a06c81040f93 x86_64/tetex-dvips-3.0-36.fc6.x86_64.rpm
7b2649135938299038383eaedb0109be46db2aaa x86_64/tetex-afm-3.0-36.fc6.x86_64.rpm
1288892a74b6a68647282f5e8c97653c02d639cc x86_64/tetex-fonts-3.0-36.fc6.x86_64.rpm
4d76b39bd2f7c341bfe62640837f7fb42d5e7191 x86_64/tetex-xdvi-3.0-36.fc6.x86_64.rpm
410768ad413ee4ffea4072fc8106666b2a56e29d x86_64/tetex-latex-3.0-36.fc6.x86_64.rpm
9bedad0d54a276183c1c403675d6a3f5f824957c x86_64/tetex-3.0-36.fc6.x86_64.rpm
5f8f4dfb3eb76b6e9ecd55e23878087ee6adbebd x86_64/debug/tetex-debuginfo-3.0-36.fc6.x86_64.rpm
df9cf84f3d6dba75ad7ebd77b587b7266d3ad893 i386/tetex-dvips-3.0-36.fc6.i386.rpm
da1363e3d7a3990b5a4351f431a595a533d16bdd i386/tetex-3.0-36.fc6.i386.rpm
1f81d522927c1080f570b3f0e13bb00d3b0737d9 i386/tetex-xdvi-3.0-36.fc6.i386.rpm
294b5788f687871f0480195075052112dabe9ab3 i386/debug/tetex-debuginfo-3.0-36.fc6.i386.rpm
a205df3c2d823c41614d66ee48412cf2bee8a8cc i386/tetex-latex-3.0-36.fc6.i386.rpm
4dec2372801b49a20fe0eee61ab48b1797326fb8 i386/tetex-fonts-3.0-36.fc6.i386.rpm
02ce647fb2a3b4a34018ba0476a06e24f1b05ac2 i386/tetex-doc-3.0-36.fc6.i386.rpm
2fbcbf1123199b9146d528e6b1456e5d4ae40eb8 i386/tetex-afm-3.0-36.fc6.i386.rpm

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3953
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-November/msg00724.html

ChangeLog

2007-11-22 : Initial release

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