teximg security problem

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 intrigeri discovered this problem on 12 Nov 2008 and a patch put in place
 later that day, in version 2.70. The fix was backported to testing as version
 2.53.3, and to stable as version 1.33.7.
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+## Insufficient blacklisting in teximg plugin
+
+Josh Tripplet discovered on 28 Aug 2009 that the teximg plugin's
+blacklisting of insecure TeX commands was insufficient; it could be
+bypassed and used to read arbitrary files. This was fixed by
+enabling TeX configuration options that disallow unsafe TeX commands.
+The fix was released on 30 Aug 2009 in version 3.1415926, and was
+backported to stable in version 2.53.4. If you use the teximg plugin,
+I recommend upgrading.