CVE-2019-19601

Publication date 5 December 2019

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

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Description

OpenDetex 2.8.5 has a Buffer Overflow in TexOpen in detex.l because of an incorrect sprintf.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
texlive-bin	20.10 groovy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Notes

mdeslaur

affected code is built inside #ifndef KPATHSEA. Debian/Ubuntu doesn't build affected code.

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.8 · High
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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