File _patchinfo of Package patchinfo.8917
<patchinfo incident="8917">
<issue tracker="bnc" id="1109673">VUL-0: CVE-2018-17407: texlive: buffer overflow in the handling of Type 1 fonts allows arbitrary code execution</issue>
<issue tracker="cve" id="2018-17407"/>
<category>security</category>
<rating>important</rating>
<packager>WernerFink</packager>
<description>This update for texlive fixes the following issue:
- CVE-2018-17407: Prevent buffer overflow when handling of Type 1 fonts allowed
arbitrary code execution when a malicious font was loaded by one of the
vulnerable tools: pdflatex, pdftex, dvips, or luatex (bsc#1109673).
</description>
<summary>Security update for texlive</summary>
</patchinfo>