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A texlive-base security update has been released for Fedora 38.



[SECURITY] Fedora 38 Update: texlive-base-20220321-72.fc38


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2023-38094d905c
2023-05-31 01:34:55.988933
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Name : texlive-base
Product : Fedora 38
Version : 20220321
Release : 72.fc38
URL : http://tug.org/texlive/
Summary : TeX formatting system
Description :
The TeX Live software distribution offers a complete TeX system for a
variety of Unix, Macintosh, Windows and other platforms. It
encompasses programs for editing, typesetting, previewing and printing
of TeX documents in many different languages, and a large collection
of TeX macros and font libraries.

The distribution includes extensive general documentation about TeX,
as well as the documentation for the included software packages.

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Update Information:

Fixes CVE-2023-32700. Also fixes issues with mptopdf.pl, thumb2pdf.pl, and
mtxrun.
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ChangeLog:

* Thu May 25 2023 Tom Callaway [spot@fedoraproject.org] - 10:20220321-72
- apply upstream fix for CVE-2023-32700
- patch texmfcnf.lua
- fix mptopdf.pl and thumbpdf.pl to have proper interpreter lines
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #2208943 - CVE-2023-32700 texlive: arbitrary code execution allows document complied with older version
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2208943
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2023-38094d905c' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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