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texlive: buffer overflow

Package(s):texlive CVE #(s):CVE-2009-1284
Created:November 13, 2009 Updated:June 26, 2012
Description: From the CVE entry: Buffer overflow in BibTeX 0.99 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) via a long .bib bibliography file.
Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2010-8273 2010-05-10
Mandriva MDVSA-2010:096 2010-05-17
Mandriva MDVSA-2010:094 2010-05-12
Ubuntu USN-937-1 2010-05-06
Fedora FEDORA-2009-10857 2009-10-27
Fedora FEDORA-2009-10730 2009-10-27
Gentoo 201206-28 2012-06-25
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