CVE-2018-17407

NameCVE-2018-17407
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in t1_check_unusual_charstring functions in writet1.c files in TeX Live before 2018-09-21. A buffer overflow in the handling of Type 1 fonts allows arbitrary code execution when a malicious font is loaded by one of the vulnerable tools: pdflatex, pdftex, dvips, or luatex.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-1514-1, DSA-4299-1
Debian Bugs909317

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
texlive-bin (PTS)bullseye, bullseye (security)2020.20200327.54578-7+deb11u1fixed
bookworm2022.20220321.62855-5.1+deb12u1fixed
sid, trixie2024.20240313.70630+ds-4fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
texlive-binsourcejessie2014.20140926.35254-6+deb8u1DLA-1514-1
texlive-binsourcestretch2016.20160513.41080.dfsg-2+deb9u1DSA-4299-1
texlive-binsource(unstable)2018.20180907.48586-2909317

Notes

Fixed by: https://github.com/TeX-Live/texlive-source/commit/6ed0077520e2b0da1fd060c7f88db7b2e6068e4c
Introduced in: https://github.com/TeX-Live/texlive-source/commit/59cbb8f96b0543c2912d6370ce8021181661e1cf

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