🛡️ OESA-2024-1997 — texlive-base (CVE-2023-46048)

🟢 CVSS 2.0 — Low ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
2.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

texlive-base security update

The TeX Live software distribution offers a complete TeX system for a variety of Unix, Macintosh, Windows and other platforms. It encompasses programs for editing, typesetting, previewing and printing of TeX documents in many different languages, and a large collection of TeX macros and font libraries.

Security Fix(es):

Tex Live 944e257 has a NULL pointer dereference in texk/web2c/pdftexdir/writet1.c. NOTE: this is disputed because it should be categorized as a usability problem.(CVE-2023-46048)

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability low.

Affected software

OESA-2024-1997 is recorded against 1 package.

  • texlive-base (fixed in 20180414-38.oe2203sp3)

Timeline and source

Published on 16 August 2024 and last revised on 18 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

www.openeuler.org (Advisory)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)

Details

Severity LOW
CVSS Score 2.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2024-08-16
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-18
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
texlive-base — 20180414-38.oe2203sp3

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