CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS
Percentile
28.0%
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2006:0727-01
Texinfo is a documentation system that can produce both online information
and printed output from a single source file.
A buffer overflow flaw was found in Texinfo’s texindex command. An attacker
could construct a carefully crafted Texinfo file that could cause texindex
to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code when opened. (CVE-2006-4810)
A flaw was found in the way Texinfo’s texindex command creates temporary
files. A local user could leverage this flaw to overwrite files the user
executing texindex has write access to. (CVE-2005-3011)
Users of Texinfo should upgrade to these updated packages which contain
backported patches and are not vulnerable to these issues.
Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2006-November/075527.html
Affected packages:
info
texinfo
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
CentOS | 2 | i386 | info | < 4.0b-3.el2.1 | info-4.0b-3.el2.1.i386.rpm |
CentOS | 2 | i386 | texinfo | < 4.0b-3.el2.1 | texinfo-4.0b-3.el2.1.i386.rpm |