X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/716560b7f15b6e15b246c39c11eb8181d91c8662..bb389a5ae25461ed20e2d28b18ea8b08f5f36473:/doc/security.mdwn?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/doc/security.mdwn b/doc/security.mdwn index 1bc7b9e60..3924186c2 100644 --- a/doc/security.mdwn +++ b/doc/security.mdwn @@ -415,4 +415,15 @@ can cause it to crash. This can potentially be used for a denial of service attack. intrigeri discovered this problem on 12 Nov 2008 and a patch put in place -later that day. +later that day, in version 2.70. The fix was backported to testing as version +2.53.3, and to stable as version 1.33.7. + +## Insufficient blacklisting in teximg plugin + +Josh Triplett discovered on 28 Aug 2009 that the teximg plugin's +blacklisting of insecure TeX commands was insufficient; it could be +bypassed and used to read arbitrary files. This was fixed by +enabling TeX configuration options that disallow unsafe TeX commands. +The fix was released on 30 Aug 2009 in version 3.1415926, and was +backported to stable in version 2.53.4. If you use the teximg plugin, +I recommend upgrading. ([[!cve CVE-2009-2944]])