bug#25993: texlive CVE-2016-10243

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:

> This fixes CVE-2016-10243:

Thanks for preparing the patch to fix this.

> diff --git a/gnu/packages/patches/texlive-texmf-CVE-2016-10243.patch 
> b/gnu/packages/patches/texlive-texmf-CVE-2016-10243.patch
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000..3a9ae993f
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/gnu/packages/patches/texlive-texmf-CVE-2016-10243.patch
> @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
> +Fix CVE-2016-10243:
> +
> +https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-10243
> +
> +Patch adapted from upstream commit:
> +
> +https://www.tug.org/svn/texlive?view=revision&revision=42605
> +
> +--- trunk/Master/texmf-dist/web2c/texmf.cnf  2016/11/29 23:10:33     42604
> ++++ trunk/Master/texmf-dist/web2c/texmf.cnf  2016/11/29 23:27:53     42605
> +@@ -568,7 +568,6 @@ extractbb,\
> + gregorio,\
> + kpsewhich,\
> + makeindex,\
> +-mpost,\
> + repstopdf,\
> +
> + % we'd like to allow:
> diff --git a/gnu/packages/tex.scm b/gnu/packages/tex.scm

Is this sufficient?  I see here that two files need this change:

    https://www.tug.org/svn/texlive?view=revision&revision=42605

Should “trunk/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/texmf.cnf” also be patched?

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Ricardo

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