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

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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
04/24/2018
Created
03/29/2023
Added
03/22/2023
Modified
03/22/2023

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)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-liblept4
  • ubuntu-upgrade-liblept5

References

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