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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.

Solution
Secunia is currently not aware of an official updated version, which addresses the vulnerability.
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Provided and/or discovered by
Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena

Original Advisory
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200501-31.xml

Other references
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