Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.68222
Category:	Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Title:	Ubuntu USN-937-1 (texlive-bin)
Summary:	NOSUMMARY
Description:	Description: The remote host is missing an update to texlive-bin announced via advisory USN-937-1. Details follow: It was discovered that TeX Live incorrectly handled certain long .bib bibliography files. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted bib file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash. This issue only affected Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, 9.04 and 9.10. (CVE-2009-1284) Marc Schoenefeld, Karel Å rot and Ludwig Nussel discovered that TeX Live incorrectly handled certain malformed dvi files. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted dvi file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2010-0739, CVE-2010-1440) Dan Rosenberg discovered that TeX Live incorrectly handled certain malformed dvi files. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted dvi file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. (CVE-2010-0827) Solution: The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 8.04 LTS: texlive-base-bin 2007.dfsg.1-2ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 9.04: texlive-base-bin 2007.dfsg.2-4ubuntu2.1 Ubuntu 9.10: texlive-base-bin 2007.dfsg.2-7ubuntu1.1 Ubuntu 10.04 LTS: texlive-binaries 2009-5ubuntu0.1 In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes. http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=USN-937-1 Risk factor : High CVSS Score: 6.8
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2009-1284 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg00505.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg00507.html http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-28.xml http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/04/01/8 http://secunia.com/advisories/34445 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-937-1 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2010-0739 39390 http://secunia.com/advisories/39390 39500 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/39500 FEDORA-2010-8273 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-May/041573.html GLSA-201206-28 SUSE-SR:2010:012 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-05/msg00002.html SUSE-SR:2010:013 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html USN-937-1 http://git.frugalware.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=frugalware-stable.git%3Ba=blob%3Bf=source/xapps-extra/tetex/texlive-CVE-2010-0739-int-overflow.patch https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=572941 oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11468 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11468 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2010-0827 BugTraq ID: 39971 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/39971 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10052 SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2010:012 (Google Search) SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2010:013 (Google Search) Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2010-1440 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=586819 oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10068 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10068
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