CVE-2024-25262

Publication date 29 February 2024

Last updated 19 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

texlive-bin commit c515e was discovered to contain heap buffer overflow via the function ttfLoadHDMX:ttfdump. This vulnerability allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via supplying a crafted TTF file.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
texlive-bin	25.10 questing	Not affected
	25.04 plucky	Not affected
	24.10 oracular	Not affected
	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	23.10 mantic	Fixed 2023.20230311.66589-6ubuntu0.1
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 2021.20210626.59705-1ubuntu0.2
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 2019.20190605.51237-3ubuntu0.2
	18.04 LTS bionic	Needs evaluation
	16.04 LTS xenial	Needs evaluation
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored end of standard support

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
texlive-bin	Upstream: https://github.com/TeX-Live/texlive-source/pull/63

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.1 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

CVE-2024-25262

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Status

Patch details

Severity score breakdown

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