RHSA-2020:1036 — Security Advisory

An update for texlive is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

The texlive packages contain TeXLive, an implementation of TeX for Linux or UNIX systems.

Security Fix(es):

• texlive: Buffer overflow in t1_check_unusual_charstring function in writet1.c (CVE-2018-17407)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.8 Release Notes linked from the References section.