CVE-2011-1400: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 4.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The default configuration of the shell_escape_commands directive in conf/texmf.d/95NonPath.cnf in the tex-common package before 2.08.1 in Debian GNU/Linux squeeze, Ubuntu 10.10 and 10.04 LTS, and possibly other operating systems lists certain programs, which might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted TeX document.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 10.04 only; version 10.10 only
• Debian Debian Linux: any version
• Debian Tex-Common: version 0.1 only; version 0.2 only; version 0.3 only; version 0.4 only; version 0.5 only; version 0.6 only; …

Published 2011-03-25. Last modified 2026-06-16.