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DEBIAN-CVE-2018-3836

An exploitable command injection vulnerability exists in the gplotMakeOutput function of Leptonica 1.74.4. A specially crafted gplot rootname argument...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 leptonlib

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.75.3-1"}]}]

Debian:13 leptonlib

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.75.3-1"}]}]

Debian:14 leptonlib

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.75.3-1"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org