Tug vulnerabilitiesNone on the known-exploited list.

Vendor
The short answer

Tug has 17 published vulnerabilities across 4 products in our catalogue. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. The most affected product is Tex Live, with 8. If you run Tug software, patch the exploited flaws first.

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Products

Which Tug products have the most vulnerabilities?

Tex Live leads with 8 published vulnerabilities. Open a product to see its versions and which of its flaws criminals are already using.

  1. Tex Live8
  2. Tetex5
  3. Texlive 20074
  4. Texlive3
Published vulnerabilities
Known exploited

Which Tug vulnerabilities are being exploited?

This is the list that matters most: flaws criminals are using now.

None of Tug's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.

Exploit likelihood

Which Tug flaws are most likely to be used?

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.

50% or more10% to 49%Under 10%
  1. 14%

    Heap-based buffer overflow in the AFM font parser in the dvi-backend component in Evince 2.32 and earlier, teTeX 3.0, t1lib 5.1.2, and possibly other products allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service...

    CVSS7.6Published7 Jan 2011
  2. 7.1%

    TeX Live allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by leveraging inclusion of mpost in shell_escape_commands in the texmf.cnf config file.

    CVSS9.8Published2 May 2017
  3. 4.9%

    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...

    CVSS6.8Published16 Apr 2010
  4. 4.5%

    Multiple array index errors in set.c in dvipng 1.11 and 1.12, and teTeX, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a malformed DVI file.

    CVSS4.3Published7 May 2010
  5. 4.4%

    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...

    CVSS6.8Published7 May 2010
  6. 4.0%

    Stack-based buffer overflow in hpc.c in dvips in teTeX and TeXlive 2007 and earlier allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a DVI file with a long href tag.

    CVSS6.8Published13 Nov 2007
  7. 3.4%

    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...

    CVSS6.8Published7 May 2010
  8. 3.2%

    Multiple buffer overflows in dvi2xx.c in dviljk in teTeX and TeXlive 2007 and earlier might allow user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted DVI input file.

    CVSS6.8Published13 Nov 2007
  9. 2.1%

    An issue was discovered in t1_check_unusual_charstring functions in writet1.c files in TeX Live before 2018-09-21.

    CVSS7.8Published23 Sep 2018
  10. 1.3%

    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...

    CVSS8.8Published14 Dec 2017
Every product

All Tug products we track.

3 products, most vulnerabilities first. Find the ones you run, then open a product to see its versions and exploited flaws.

This directory lists the 3 Tug products with at least one tracked version, of 4 in our catalogue.

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Our catalogue lists 17 published vulnerabilities across 4 products and 40 versions from Tug.

None of Tug's vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today.

Tex Live, with 8 published vulnerabilities. Its own page lists the ones known to be exploited.

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