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SUSE: CVE-2018-3836: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2018-3836: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
02/12/2018
Created
03/05/2020
Added
03/02/2020
Modified
05/11/2021

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(s)

  • suse-upgrade-leptonica-debugsource
  • suse-upgrade-leptonica-devel
  • suse-upgrade-leptonica-tools
  • suse-upgrade-leptonica-tools-debuginfo
  • suse-upgrade-liblept4
  • suse-upgrade-liblept4-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-liblept4-debuginfo
  • suse-upgrade-liblept4-debuginfo-32bit

References

  • CVE-2018-3836

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