Bug 1549725 (CVE-2018-7440) - CVE-2018-7440 leptonica: gplotMakeOutput command injection (CVE-2018-3836 incomplete fix)
Summary: CVE-2018-7440 leptonica: gplotMakeOutput command injection (CVE-2018-3836 inc...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2018-7440
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1549726 1549727 1549728 1549729
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-02-27 17:37 UTC by Laura Pardo
Modified: 2021-10-21 19:55 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2021-10-21 19:55:31 UTC
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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]
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