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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2018-7441: Leptonica: Multiple Vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2018-7441: Leptonica: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/23/2018
Created
12/20/2023
Added
12/19/2023
Modified
12/19/2023

Description

Leptonica through 1.75.3 uses hardcoded /tmp pathnames, which might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files or have unspecified other impact by creating files in advance or winning a race condition, as demonstrated by /tmp/junk_split_image.ps in prog/splitimage2pdf.c.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-media-libs-leptonica

References

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