CVE-2006-4810 Information

Description

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.

Reference

ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20061101-01-P http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/texinfo/texinfo/util/texindex.c?r1=1.16&r2=1.17 http://secunia.com/advisories/22725 http://secunia.com/advisories/22777 http://secunia.com/advisories/22798 http://secunia.com/advisories/22898 http://secunia.com/advisories/22929 http://secunia.com/advisories/22995 http://secunia.com/advisories/23015 http://secunia.com/advisories/23112 http://secunia.com/advisories/23335 http://secunia.com/advisories/24788 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200611-16.xml http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1219 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:203 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_28_sr.html http://www.openpkg.org/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2006.034-texinfo.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0727.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452723/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464745/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20959 http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0063/ http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-379-1 http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/esx-1121906-patch.html http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/esx-2559638-patch.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4412 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1267 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30158 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-810 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10893