[texhax] security issues

[Victor Ivrii]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 4:49 AM, Uwe Lueck <uwe.lueck at web.de> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> to my astonishment, I find security warnings touching TeX in the German Linux Magazine:
>
> BibTeX:
>    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34332

Don't know

>
> teTeX English:
>    http://freshmeat.net/articles/red-hat-updated-tetex-packages-fix-multiple-security-issues
>
> teTeX, TeX Live 2007 German:
>    http://www.linux-magazin.de/DFN-CERT-Advisories/RedHat-Mehrere-Schwachstellen-im-Textsatzsystem-teTeX-RHSA-2010-0399-01


TL2010 has addressed many security issues.

>
> Xpdf:
>    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36703


Xpdf is not part of TeX and I believe the latest security issue was
addressed by pl4 patch. BTW in many distributions xpdf is replaced by
kpdf (not sure about security issues)

>
> I have rarely looked at TeX user journals and am wondering whether they have a regular column on security issues.
>
> Cheers,
>
>    Uwe.
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Victor
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