| 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, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-847-1, DSA-3803-1 |
| NVD severity | high |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| texlive-base (PTS) | jessie (security), jessie | 2014.20141024-2+deb8u1 | fixed |
| stretch | 2016.20170123-5 | fixed |
| buster | 2018.20190227-2 | fixed |
| bullseye | 2019.20190930-1 | fixed |
| sid | 2019.20191112-1 | fixed |
| texlive-bin (PTS) | jessie | 2014.20140926.35254-6 | vulnerable |
| jessie (security) | 2014.20140926.35254-6+deb8u1 | vulnerable |
| stretch (security), stretch | 2016.20160513.41080.dfsg-2+deb9u1 | vulnerable |
| buster | 2018.20181218.49446-1 | vulnerable |
| bullseye, sid | 2019.20190605.51237-3 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
https://scumjr.github.io/2016/11/28/pwning-coworkers-thanks-to-latex/
http://www.tug.org/svn/texlive?view=revision&revision=42605