CVE-2011-1400
Description
From CVE.org
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.
Statement
Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of tetex as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 or 5, and the versions of texlive as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
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