vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2018-3836: leptonlib -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Apr 24, 2018
Added
Feb 25, 2019
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

An exploitable command injection vulnerability exists in the gplotMakeOutput function of Leptonica 1.74.4. A specially crafted gplot rootname argument can cause a command injection resulting in arbitrary code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious path as input to an application that passes attacker data to this function to trigger this vulnerability.

Solution

debian-upgrade-leptonlib
Title
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