vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-4819-1 (CVE-2018-3836): Leptonica vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Apr 24, 2018
Added
Mar 22, 2023
Modified
Aug 18, 2025

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.

Solutions

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