id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
11223	texlive, fix for CVE-2018-17407	ken@…	ken@…	"An issue was discovered in t1_check_unusual_charstring functions in writet1.c files in TeX Live before 2018-09-21. A buffer overflow in the handling of Type 1 fonts allows arbitrary code execution when a malicious font is loaded by one of the vulnerable tools: pdflatex, pdftex, dvips, or luatex. 

This applies to past years too.

Binary users should obviously update.

I found a patch at fedora (couldn't get anywhere in texlive svn).  But (on 8.3) failed to build with -j8.  Retrying with -j1.

Note that debian-unstable and testing seem to be using *current* svn, and I noticed they had issues with some libraries.
"	enhancement	closed	high	8.4	BOOK	SVN	medium	fixed