Bug 1549734 (CVE-2018-7442)

Summary:	CVE-2018-7442 leptonica: directory traversal in gplot rootname argument
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Laura Pardo <lpardo>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	jkucera, manisandro, rhel8-maint
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Bug Depends On:	1549738, 1549735, 1549736, 1549737
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Description Laura Pardo 2018-02-27 17:55:07 UTC

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. 


References:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/2018/02/msg00086.html

Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2018-02-27 17:55:29 UTC

Created leptonica tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1549738]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1549735]


Created mingw-leptonica tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1549737]