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CVE-2015-8106

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-04-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-134

Description

Format string vulnerability in the CmdKeywords function in funct1.c in latex2rtf before 2.3.10 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in the \keywords command in a crafted TeX file.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 22, 23, 24
• Latex2Rtf Project Latex2Rtf: 2.3.8

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/181276.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/181677.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/181725.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/16/3
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1282492
• https://sourceforge.net/p/latex2rtf/code/1244/
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/181276.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/181677.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/181725.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/16/3
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1282492
• https://sourceforge.net/p/latex2rtf/code/1244/

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