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DEBIAN-CVE-2018-7247

An issue was discovered in pixHtmlViewer in prog/htmlviewer.c in Leptonica before 1.75.3. Unsanitized input (rootname) can overflow a buffer, leading...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

An issue was discovered in pixHtmlViewer in prog/htmlviewer.c in Leptonica before 1.75.3. Unsanitized input (rootname) can overflow a buffer, leading potentially to arbitrary code execution or possibly unspecified other impact.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 leptonlib

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.76.0-1"}]}]

Debian:13 leptonlib

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.76.0-1"}]}]

Debian:14 leptonlib

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.76.0-1"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org