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OpenPKG Security Advisory 2006.34

OpenPKG Security Advisory 2006.34
Posted Nov 16, 2006
Authored by OpenPKG Foundation | Site openpkg.org

OpenPKG Security Advisory OpenPKG-SA-2006.034 - Miloslav Trmac from Red Hat discovered a buffer overflow in GNU Texinfo. The flaw was found in a function used by Texinfo's texi2dvi and texindex commands. An attacker could construct a carefully crafted Texinfo file that could cause texi2dvi or texindex to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code when opened.

tags | advisory, overflow, arbitrary
systems | linux, redhat
advisories | CVE-2006-4810
SHA-256 | 878e47113669a4f4780cad26b04bda1aa8d62ebe2073d4f4aa25c8cb53347bd8

OpenPKG Security Advisory 2006.34

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OpenPKG Security Advisory OpenPKG GmbH
http://openpkg.org/security/ http://openpkg.com
OpenPKG-SA-2006.034 2006-11-15
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Package: texinfo
Vulnerability: arbitrary code execution
OpenPKG Specific: no

Affected Series: Affected Packages: Corrected Packages:
E1.0-SOLID <= texinfo-4.8a-E1.0.0 >= texinfo-4.8a-E1.0.1
2-STABLE-20061018 <= texinfo-4.8a-2.20061018 >= texinfo-4.8a-2.20061114
2-STABLE <= texinfo-4.8a-2.20061018 >= texinfo-4.8a-2.20061114
CURRENT <= texinfo-4.8a-20061013 >= texinfo-4.8a-20061114

Description:
Miloslav Trmac from Red Hat discovered [0] a buffer overflow in GNU
Texinfo [1]. The flaw was found in a function used by Texinfo's
texi2dvi(1) and texindex(1) commands. An attacker could construct
a carefully crafted Texinfo file that could cause texi2dvi(1) or
texindex(1) to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code when opened.
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project assigned the id
CVE-2006-4810 [2] to the problem.
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References:
[0] https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0727.html
[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/
[2] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4810
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For security reasons, this advisory was digitally signed with the
OpenPGP public key "OpenPKG <openpkg@openpkg.org>" (ID 63C4CB9F) which
you can retrieve from http://openpkg.org/openpkg.org.pgp. Follow the
instructions on http://openpkg.org/security/signatures/ for details on
how to verify the integrity of this advisory.
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