CVE-2015-8106 Code injection in n/a

What is CVE-2015-8106?

CVE-2015-8106 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 18 Apr 2016. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Format string vulnerability in the CmdKeywords function in funct1.c in latex2rtf before 2.3.10 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in the \keywords command in a crafted TeX file.

Weakness: CWE-134

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-8106?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Latex2rtf Project Latex2rtf.

How do I fix CVE-2015-8106?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2015-8106 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-8106 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8106, GHSA-4764-m84f-xpjw, MGASA-2015-0453, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8106.