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.
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
RedHat | 3 | ia64 | texinfo | < 4.5-3.el3.1 | texinfo-4.5-3.el3.1.ia64.rpm |
RedHat | 3 | s390x | info | < 4.5-3.el3.1 | info-4.5-3.el3.1.s390x.rpm |
RedHat | 3 | ia64 | info | < 4.5-3.el3.1 | info-4.5-3.el3.1.ia64.rpm |
RedHat | 4 | x86_64 | info | < 4.7-5.el4.2 | info-4.7-5.el4.2.x86_64.rpm |
RedHat | 2 | ia64 | texinfo | < 4.0b-3.el2.1 | texinfo-4.0b-3.el2.1.ia64.rpm |
RedHat | 4 | ia64 | info | < 4.7-5.el4.2 | info-4.7-5.el4.2.ia64.rpm |
RedHat | 4 | s390x | info | < 4.7-5.el4.2 | info-4.7-5.el4.2.s390x.rpm |
RedHat | 3 | ppc | texinfo | < 4.5-3.el3.1 | texinfo-4.5-3.el3.1.ppc.rpm |
RedHat | 3 | s390 | texinfo | < 4.5-3.el3.1 | texinfo-4.5-3.el3.1.s390.rpm |
RedHat | 4 | i386 | info | < 4.7-5.el4.2 | info-4.7-5.el4.2.i386.rpm |