Name | CVE-2016-10243 |
Description | TeX Live allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by leveraging inclusion of mpost in shell_escape_commands in the texmf.cnf config file. |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
References | DLA-847-1, DSA-3803-1 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
---|---|---|---|
texlive-base (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 2014.20141024-2+deb8u1 | fixed |
stretch | 2016.20170123-5 | fixed | |
buster | 2018.20190227-2 | fixed | |
bullseye | 2020.20210202-3 | fixed | |
bookworm | 2022.20230122-3 | fixed | |
sid, trixie | 2023.20240207-1 | fixed | |
texlive-bin (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 2014.20140926.35254-6+deb8u1 | vulnerable |
stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 2016.20160513.41080.dfsg-2+deb9u1 | vulnerable | |
buster | 2018.20181218.49446-1 | vulnerable | |
buster (security) | 2018.20181218.49446-1+deb10u2 | vulnerable | |
bullseye (security), bullseye | 2020.20200327.54578-7+deb11u1 | fixed | |
bookworm | 2022.20220321.62855-5.1+deb12u1 | fixed | |
sid, trixie | 2023.20230311.66589-9 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
texlive-base | source | wheezy | 2012.20120611-5+deb7u1 | DLA-847-1 | ||
texlive-base | source | jessie | 2014.20141024-2+deb8u1 | DSA-3803-1 | ||
texlive-base | source | (unstable) | 2016.20161130-1 | |||
texlive-bin | source | (unstable) | 2019.20190605.51237-2 | unimportant |
https://scumjr.github.io/2016/11/28/pwning-coworkers-thanks-to-latex/
http://www.tug.org/svn/texlive?view=revision&revision=42605