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TITLE:
mimeTeX Multiple Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA35752

VERIFY ADVISORY:
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DESCRIPTION:
Chris Evans has reported some vulnerabilities in mimeTeX, which can
be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information or
compromise a vulnerable system.

1) Multiple boundary errors when processing TeX input can be
exploited to cause buffer overflows via e.g. overly long strings
passed in  "\picture", \circle", or "\input" expressions.

2) Multiple errors when handling the "\environ", "\input", and
"\counter" directives can be exploited to disclose sensitive
information.

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions released before 17 June
2009.

SOLUTION:
Update to the latest version.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Chris Evans, Google

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2009-009.html

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