Buffer overflow in the readline function in util/texindex.c, as used by the (1) texi2dvi and (2) texindex commands, in texinfo 4.8 and earlier allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Texinfo file.
References
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ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20061101-01-P cve-icon cve-icon
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/texinfo/texinfo/util/texindex.c?r1=1.16&r2=1.17 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/22725 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/22777 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/22798 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/22898 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/22929 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/22995 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/23015 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/23112 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/23335 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/24788 cve-icon cve-icon
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200611-16.xml cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1219 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:203 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_28_sr.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.openpkg.org/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2006.034-texinfo.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0727.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452723/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464745/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20959 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0063/ cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-379-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/esx-1121906-patch.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/esx-2559638-patch.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4412 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1267 cve-icon cve-icon
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30158 cve-icon cve-icon
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-810 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-4810 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10893 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-4810 cve-icon
History

No history.

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2006-11-08T21:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T19:23:41.175Z

Reserved: 2006-09-15T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2006-4810

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2006-11-08T21:07:00.000

Modified: 2024-11-21T00:16:48.453

Link: CVE-2006-4810

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2006-11-08T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2006-4810 - Bugzilla