Bug 692074 (CVE-2011-1400) - CVE-2011-1400 tetex, texlive: shell_escape_commands insufficient input sanitization (ACE)
Summary: CVE-2011-1400 tetex, texlive: shell_escape_commands insufficient input saniti...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2011-1400
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-03-30 11:19 UTC by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2021-02-24 16:13 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2011-04-06 07:36:31 UTC
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2011-03-30 11:19:32 UTC 
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2011-1400 to
the following vulnerability:

The default configuration of the shell_escape_commands directive in
conf/texmf.d/95NonPath.cnf in the tex-common package before 2.08.1 in
Debian GNU/Linux squeeze lists certain programs, which might allow
remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted TeX document.

References:
[1] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-1400
[2] http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debian-tex/?op=comp&compare[]=%2Ftex-common%2Ftrunk@4781&compare[]=%2Ftex-common%2Ftrunk@4812
[3] http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debian-tex/tex-common/trunk/?op=log
[4] http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2198
[5] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46986
[6] http://secunia.com/advisories/43816
[7] http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0731
[8] http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/66249
Comment 6 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2011-04-06 07:35:30 UTC 
Statement:

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of tetex as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 or 5, and the versions of texlive as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
Comment 7 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2011-04-06 07:36:31 UTC 
This issue does NOT affect the versions of texlive shipped with Fedora 13 or Fedora 14.
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