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Re: CVE request: latex2man / texlive


From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried () redhat com>
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:21:44 -0600

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On 04/19/2012 07:20 AM, Matthias Weckbecker wrote:
Hi Kurt, Steve, vendors,

recently there has been an issue reported by Helmut Grohne in
latex2man. It seems to be different from what we had the other day
(CVE-2012-2093 [1]). Bug report of the new issue is available at:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=668779

Does this qualify for a CVE?

Sigh. And this is why people using bash should use mktemp(), all other
languages you probably want to use mkstemp().

Please use CVE-2012-2120 for this issue.

Thanks, Matthias

[1] http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q2/56


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