The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2010:0399 advisory.

    teTeX is an implementation of TeX. TeX takes a text file and a set of     formatting commands as input, and creates a typesetter-independent DeVice     Independent (DVI) file as output.

    A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way teTeX processed virtual font     files when converting DVI files into PostScript. An attacker could create a     malicious DVI file that would cause the dvips executable to crash or,     potentially, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2010-0827)

    Multiple integer overflow flaws were found in the way teTeX processed     special commands when converting DVI files into PostScript. An attacker     could create a malicious DVI file that would cause the dvips executable to     crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2010-0739,     CVE-2010-1440)

    A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way teTeX processed DVI     files containing HyperTeX references with long titles, when converting them     into PostScript. An attacker could create a malicious DVI file that would     cause the dvips executable to crash. (CVE-2007-5935)

    teTeX embeds a copy of Xpdf, an open source Portable Document Format (PDF)     file viewer, to allow adding images in PDF format to the generated PDF     documents. The following issues affect Xpdf code:

    Multiple integer overflow flaws were found in Xpdf's JBIG2 decoder. If a     local user generated a PDF file from a TeX document, referencing a     specially-crafted PDF file, it would cause Xpdf to crash or, potentially,     execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running pdflatex.
    (CVE-2009-0147, CVE-2009-1179)

    Multiple integer overflow flaws were found in Xpdf. If a local user     generated a PDF file from a TeX document, referencing a specially-crafted     PDF file, it would cause Xpdf to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary     code with the privileges of the user running pdflatex. (CVE-2009-0791,     CVE-2009-3609)

    A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in Xpdf's JBIG2 decoder. If a     local user generated a PDF file from a TeX document, referencing a     specially-crafted PDF file, it would cause Xpdf to crash or, potentially,     execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running pdflatex.
    (CVE-2009-0195)

    Multiple buffer overflow flaws were found in Xpdf's JBIG2 decoder. If a     local user generated a PDF file from a TeX document, referencing a     specially-crafted PDF file, it would cause Xpdf to crash or, potentially,     execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running pdflatex.
    (CVE-2009-0146, CVE-2009-1182)

    Multiple flaws were found in Xpdf's JBIG2 decoder that could lead to the     freeing of arbitrary memory. If a local user generated a PDF file from a     TeX document, referencing a specially-crafted PDF file, it would cause     Xpdf to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges     of the user running pdflatex. (CVE-2009-0166, CVE-2009-1180)

    Multiple input validation flaws were found in Xpdf's JBIG2 decoder. If a     local user generated a PDF file from a TeX document, referencing a     specially-crafted PDF file, it would cause Xpdf to crash or, potentially,     execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running pdflatex.
    (CVE-2009-0800)

    Multiple denial of service flaws were found in Xpdf's JBIG2 decoder. If a     local user generated a PDF file from a TeX document, referencing a     specially-crafted PDF file, it would cause Xpdf to crash. (CVE-2009-0799,     CVE-2009-1181, CVE-2009-1183)

    Red Hat would like to thank Braden Thomas and Drew Yao of the Apple Product     Security team, Will Dormann of the CERT/CC, and Alin Rad Pop of Secunia     Research, for responsibly reporting the Xpdf flaws.

    All users of tetex are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which     contain backported patches to correct these issues.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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RHEL 4 : tetex (RHSA-2010:0399)

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