Bug 1155411 – VUL-1: CVE-2019-18604: texlive: improper use of sprintf

Bug 1155411 - (CVE-2019-18604) VUL-1: CVE-2019-18604: texlive: improper use of sprintf

(CVE-2019-18604)
Summary:	VUL-1: CVE-2019-18604: texlive: improper use of sprintf

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Classification:	openSUSE
Product:	openSUSE Tumbleweed
Classification:	openSUSE
Component:	Security
Version:	Current
Hardware:	Other Other

Priority:	P4 - Low Severity: Normal (vote)
Target Milestone:	Current
Assigned To:	Dr. Werner Fink
QA Contact:	Security Team bot

URL:	https://smash.suse.de/issue/246033/
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Reported:	2019-10-30 09:11 UTC by Alexandros Toptsoglou
Modified:	2022-03-24 09:15 UTC (History)
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Description Alexandros Toptsoglou 2019-10-30 09:11:27 UTC

CVE-2019-18604

In axohelp.c before 1.3 in axohelp in axodraw2 before 2.1.1b, as distributed in
TeXLive and other collections, sprintf is mishandled.

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2019-18604
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2019/CVE-2019-18604.html
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-18604
https://github.com/TeX-Live/texlive-source/commit/9216833a3888a4105a18e8c349f65b045ddb1079#diff-987e40c0e27ee43f6a2414ada73a191a

Comment 1 Alexandros Toptsoglou 2019-10-30 09:13:08 UTC

Only Factory is affected. Our internal codestreams as well as Leap versions of OpenSUSE are not affected since they ship an older version.

Comment 2 Dr. Werner Fink 2019-10-31 13:06:05 UTC

FIXED with SR#744485

Comment 3 Swamp Workflow Management 2019-10-31 13:40:10 UTC

This is an autogenerated message for OBS integration:
This bug (1155411) was mentioned in
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/744485 Factory / texlive