Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-17407  

An issue was discovered in t1_check_unusual_charstring functions in writet1.c files in TeX Live before 2018-09-21. A buffer overflow in the handling of Type 1 fonts allows arbitrary code execution when a malicious font is loaded by one of the vulnerable tools: pdflatex, pdftex, dvips, or luatex.

Severity High

Remote No

Type Arbitrary code execution

Description

An issue was discovered in t1_check_unusual_charstring functions in writet1.c files in TeX Live before 2018-09-21. A buffer overflow in the handling of Type 1 fonts allows arbitrary code execution when a malicious font is loaded by one of the vulnerable tools: pdflatex, pdftex, dvips, or luatex.

AVG-770 texlive-bin 2018.47465-5 2018.48691-1 High Fixed

08 Dec 2018 ASA-201812-4 AVG-770 texlive-bin High arbitrary code execution

https://github.com/TeX-Live/texlive-source/commit/6ed0077520e2b0da1fd060c7f88db7b2e6068e4c
https://github.com/TeX-Live/texlive-source/commit/f1211fe16c19af8fee54146ae116e4e5c779e8b4