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teTeX Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA13957
Release Date: 2005-01-24
Popularity: 7,124 views

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:teTeX 2.x

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Description:
Some vulnerabilities has been reported in teTeX, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system and by malicious, local users to perform certain actions on a vulnerable system with escalated privileges.

For more information:
SA12917
SA13602
SA13903

A vulnerability also exists in the way the xdvizilla script creates temporary files. This can be exploited via symlink attacks to create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user running the vulnerable script.

Change Page:
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