Bug 1549734 (CVE-2018-7442) - CVE-2018-7442 leptonica: directory traversal in gplot rootname argument
Summary: CVE-2018-7442 leptonica: directory traversal in gplot rootname argument
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2018-7442
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1549738 1549735 1549736 1549737
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-02-27 17:55 UTC by Laura Pardo
Modified: 2021-10-21 19:55 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2021-10-21 19:55:36 UTC
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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. 


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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]
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