Summary
The remote host is missing an update to texlive
announced via advisory FEDORA-2009-10730.
Solution
Apply the appropriate updates.
This update can be installed with the yum update program. Use su -c 'yum update texlive' at the command line.
For more information, refer to Managing Software with yum, available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FEDORA-2009-10730
Insight
ChangeLog:
* Fri Oct 23 2009 Jindrich Novy 2007-46
- add missing dependency on kpathsea
* Thu Oct 15 2009 Jindrich Novy 2007-45
- make kpathsea not dependent on texlive
- fix lacheck again (#451513)
- fix dvips configuration (#467542)
- update kpathsea description and summary (#519257) - use upstream patch to fix pool overflow CVE-2009-1284 (#492136) - don't complain if the pdvipsk hunks touching config.ps don't apply - avoid clashes with getline() from glibc
- texlive-east-asian now requires texlive-texmf-east-asian (#487258) - do not attempt to remove old fonts via cron in /var/lib/texmf, fonts are stored in ~/.texlive2007/texmf-var per-user (#477833, #463975, #453468)
- use correct paths in brp-* post install scriptlets (#468179) - fix build with gcc4.4
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2009-1284 -
CVSS Base Score: 5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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