A flaw was found in the pre-install script of texlive-base package derived from
texlive package. This flaw allows unprivileged user to remove arbitrary files 
on the system.

~ rpm -qa texlive-base --scripts
preinstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh):
rm -rf /usr/share/texlive/texmf-var
rm -rf /var/lib/texmf/*

# Following script in the preinstall scriplet allows attacker to remove arbitrary
files on the systems
for i in `find /home/*/.texlive* -type d -prune`; do
find $i -name *.fmt -type f | xargs rm -f > /dev/null 2>&1
done
...

Attacker can create a malicious file in his $HOME directory that would trigger
file removal and wait for the texlive-base package to be updated by administrator,
as when package will be updated it would run preinstall scriplet which would then
run malicious file in attacker $HOME directory as privileged user.

Reproducer and more information:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1099238