Bug#1064517: texlive-bin: CVE-2024-25262

[Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

Source: texlive-bin
X-Debbugs-CC: team@security.debian.org
Severity: important
Tags: security

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for texlive-bin.

CVE-2024-25262[0]:
| texlive-bin commit c515e was discovered to contain heap buffer
| overflow via the function ttfLoadHDMX:ttfdump. This vulnerability
| allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via supplying a
| crafted TTF file.

https://tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/ttfdump/ChangeLog?revision=69605&view=co
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/texlive-bin/+bug/2047912
https://github.com/TeX-Live/texlive-source/pull/63

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-25262
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-25262

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.