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>