CVE-2011-1400 Command injection in n/a

What is CVE-2011-1400?

CVE-2011-1400 is a medium-severity command injection vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 25 Mar 2011. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

The default configuration of the shell_escape_commands directive in conf/texmf.d/95NonPath.cnf in the tex-common package before 2.08.1 in Debian GNU/Linux squeeze, Ubuntu 10.10 and 10.04 LTS, and possibly other operating systems lists certain programs, which might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted TeX document.

Weakness: CWE-16

Which versions are affected by CVE-2011-1400?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Debian Tex-Common.

How do I fix CVE-2011-1400?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.

Is CVE-2011-1400 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2011-1400 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2011-1400, DSA-2198-1, GHSA-3hcf-872f-8qrc.