Bug#409709: CVE-2007-0650 tetex-bin: Buffer overflows in teTeX's makeindex

[Alex de Oliveira Silva <enerv@host.sk>]

Package: tetex-bin
Version: 3.0-29
Severity: important
Tags: security

Hi.
Discovered one Buffer overflow in the open_sty function in mkind.c for
makeindex 2.14 might allow user-assisted remote attackers to overwrite
files and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long filename.

Referente:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=225491
http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2007-0650

Note:
Please mention the CVE id in the changelog.


Thanks in advanced.


regards,
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