Tex Live vulnerabilitiesRanked by how likely they are to be used.
Tex Live is made by Tug. We track 8 published vulnerabilities in it, across 32 versions. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. If you run Tex Live, keep it on a version the vendor still supports.
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Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.
- 7.1%CVE-2016-10243Critical
TeX Live allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by leveraging inclusion of mpost in shell_escape_commands in the texmf.cnf config file.
- 4.9%CVE-2010-0739Medium
Integer overflow in the predospecial function in dospecial.c in dvips in (1) TeX Live and (2) teTeX might allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted DVI file that triggers a...
- 4.4%CVE-2010-0827Medium
Integer overflow in dvips in TeX Live 2009 and earlier, and teTeX, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted virtual font (VF) file...
- 3.4%CVE-2010-1440Medium
Multiple integer overflows in dvipsk/dospecial.c in dvips in TeX Live 2009 and earlier, and teTeX, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a...
- 2.1%CVE-2018-17407High
An issue was discovered in t1_check_unusual_charstring functions in writet1.c files in TeX Live before 2018-09-21.
- 1.3%CVE-2017-17513High
TeX Live through 20170524 does not validate strings before launching the program specified by the BROWSER environment variable, which might allow remote attackers to conduct argument-injection attacks via a crafted...
- 0.8%CVE-2023-32700High
LuaTeX before 1.17.0 allows execution of arbitrary shell commands when compiling a TeX file obtained from an untrusted source.
- 0.4%CVE-2023-32668Medium
LuaTeX before 1.17.0 allows a document (compiled with the default settings) to make arbitrary network requests.
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TeX Live allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by leveraging inclusion of mpost in shell_escape_commands in the texmf.cnf config file.
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We track 8 published vulnerabilities listed under the name Tex Live, across 32 versions.
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