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A texlive-base security update has been released for Fedora 30.



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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2020-fa1956e637
2020-02-14 01:11:33.424448
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Name : texlive-base
Product : Fedora 30
Version : 20180414
Release : 37.fc30
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:

Resolve buffer overflow in TexOpen() function, CVE-2019-19601
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Feb 5 2020 Tom Callaway - 7:20180414-37
- fix bz#1798119 - buffer overflow in TexOpen() function, CVE-2019-19601
* Fri Jan 10 2020 Tom Callaway - 7:20180414-36
- fix python3 issues with pdfbook2 and latex-papersize
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References:

[ 1 ] Bug #1798118 - CVE-2019-19601 texlive: buffer overflow in the TexOpen() function in detex.l
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1798118
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-fa1956e637' 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

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