Bug 1549725 (CVE-2018-7440)

Summary:	CVE-2018-7440 leptonica: gplotMakeOutput command injection (CVE-2018-3836 incomplete fix)
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Laura Pardo <lpardo>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	jkucera, manisandro, rhel8-maint
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Bug Depends On:	1549726, 1549727, 1549728, 1549729
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Description Laura Pardo 2018-02-27 17:37:35 UTC

An issue was discovered in Leptonica through 1.75.3. The gplotMakeOutput function allows command injection via a $(command) approach in the gplot rootname argument. This issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2018-3836.


References:
https://github.com/DanBloomberg/leptonica/issues/303#issuecomment-366472212

Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2018-02-27 17:38:02 UTC

Created leptonica tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1549726]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1549729]


Created mingw-leptonica tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1549727]