Upstream information

CVE-2018-7442 at MITRE

Description

An issue was discovered in Leptonica through 1.75.3. The gplotMakeOutput function does not block '/' characters in the gplot rootname argument, potentially leading to path traversal and arbitrary file overwrite.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having critical severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 6.4
Vector AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None
CVSS v3 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 9.1
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact High
Integrity Impact High
Availability Impact None
CVSSv3 Version 3
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1082748 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • leptonica-devel >= 1.80.0-1.9
  • leptonica-tools >= 1.80.0-1.9
  • liblept5 >= 1.80.0-1.9
  • liblept5-32bit >= 1.80.0-1.9
Patchnames:
openSUSE Tumbleweed GA leptonica-devel-1.80.0-1.9


SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Sat Feb 24 01:29:53 2018
CVE page last modified: Sun Jun 25 21:38:43 2023