CVE-2018-7441
Published: 23 February 2018
Leptonica through 1.75.3 uses hardcoded /tmp pathnames, which might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files or have unspecified other impact by creating files in advance or winning a race condition, as demonstrated by /tmp/junk_split_image.ps in prog/splitimage2pdf.c.
Priority
Low
CVSS 3 base score: 7.0
Status
| Package | Release | Status |
|---|---|---|
|
leptonlib Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
Upstream |
Needs triage
|
| Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo) |
Released
(1.76.0-1)
|
|
| Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla) |
Released
(1.76.0-1)
|
|
| Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) |
Released
(1.76.0-1)
|
|
| Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) |
Needed
|
|
| Ubuntu 16.04 ESM (Xenial Xerus) |
Ignored
(end of standard support, was needed)
|
|
| Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr) |
Needed
|
Notes
| Author | Note |
|---|---|
| ebarretto | Neutralised by kernel hardening https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/2018/02/msg00054.html |