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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2018-1000801: Okular: Directory traversal

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2018-1000801: Okular: Directory traversal

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
09/06/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
11/12/2018
Modified
11/12/2018

Description

okular version 18.08 and earlier contains a Directory Traversal vulnerability in function "unpackDocumentArchive(...)" in "core/document.cpp" that can result in Arbitrary file creation on the user workstation. This attack appear to be exploitable via he victim must open a specially crafted Okular archive. This issue appears to have been corrected in version 18.08.1

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-kde-apps-okular

References

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