Bug 1547124 (CVE-2018-7247) - CVE-2018-7247 leptonica: Unsanitized input in pixHtmlViewer in prog/htmlviewer.c
Summary: CVE-2018-7247 leptonica: Unsanitized input in pixHtmlViewer in prog/htmlviewer.c
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2018-7247
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1547125 1547126 1547132 1547133
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-02-20 15:01 UTC by Laura Pardo
Modified: 2021-10-21 19:55 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2021-10-21 19:55:10 UTC
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Description Laura Pardo 2018-02-20 15:01:02 UTC 
A flaw was found in pixHtmlViewer in prog/htmlviewer.c in Leptonica before 1.75.3. An Unsanitized input (rootname) can overflow a buffer, thus potentially leading to arbitrary code execution or possibly other unspecified impact.


References:
https://github.com/DanBloomberg/leptonica/pull/309

Patch:
https://github.com/DanBloomberg/leptonica/commit/c1079bb8e77cdd426759e466729917ca37a3ed9f
Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2018-02-20 15:01:28 UTC 
Created leptonica tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1547125]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1547126]
Comment 2 Laura Pardo 2018-02-20 15:12:08 UTC 
Created mingw-leptonica tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1547133]
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