FKIE_CVE-2015-8106

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2016-04-18 14:59 - Updated: 2026-05-06 22:30
Severity
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
Format string vulnerability in the CmdKeywords function in funct1.c in latex2rtf before 2.3.10 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in the \keywords command in a crafted TeX file.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/181276.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/181677.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/181725.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/16/3
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1282492
cve@mitre.orghttps://sourceforge.net/p/latex2rtf/code/1244/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/181276.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/181677.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/181725.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/16/3
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1282492
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://sourceforge.net/p/latex2rtf/code/1244/
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
latex2rtf_project latex2rtf 2.3.8
fedoraproject fedora 22
fedoraproject fedora 23
fedoraproject fedora 24
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