Executive Summary

Summary
Title tex-common security update
Informations
Name DSA-2198 First vendor Publication 2011-03-22
Vendor Debian Last vendor Modification 2011-03-22
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 1

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 6.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Mathias Svensson discovered that tex-common, a package shipping a number of scripts and configuration files necessary for TeX, contains insecure settings for the "shell_escape_commands" directive. Depending on the scenario, this may result in arbitrary code execution when a victim is tricked into processing a malicious tex-file or this is done in an automated fashion.

The oldstable distribution (lenny) is not affected by this problem due to shell_escape being disabled.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 2.08.1.

For the testing (wheezy) and unstable (sid) distributions, this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your tex-common packages.

Original Source

Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2198

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-16 Configuration

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12957
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12957
Title: DSA-2198-1 tex-common -- insufficient input sanitisation
Description: Mathias Svensson discovered that tex-common, a package shipping a number of scripts and configuration files necessary for TeX, contains insecure settings for the "shell_escape_commands" directive. Depending on the scenario, this may result in arbitrary code execution when a victim is tricked into processing a malicious tex-file or this is done in an automated fashion. The oldstable distribution is not affected by this problem due to shell_escape being disabled.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-2198-1
CVE-2011-1400
 Version: 7
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 6.0
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 6.0
 Product(s): tex-common
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13763
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13763
Title: USN-1103-1 -- tex-common vulnerability
Description: Mathias Svensson discovered that the tex-common package contains an insecure shell_escape_commands configuration item. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted TeX file, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with user privileges.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-1103-1
CVE-2011-1400
 Version: 7
Platform(s): Ubuntu 10.10
Ubuntu 10.04
 Product(s): tex-common
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 77
Os 2
Os 1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2011-05-12 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 2198-1 (tex-common)
File : nvt/deb_2198_1.nasl
2011-04-06 Name : Ubuntu Update for tex-common vulnerability USN-1103-1
File : nvt/gb_ubuntu_USN_1103_1.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
74630 tex-common conf/texmf.d/95NonPath.cnf shell_escape_commands Directive Crafted...

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2011-04-05 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-1103-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2011-03-23 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-2198.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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