CVE-2018-7441

Published: Feb 23, 2018Modified: Nov 21, 2024

7.0

Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploitability: 1.0 / Impact: 5.9

Source: NVD

Description

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.

Affected (1)

Products: Leptonica: Leptonica

1 product

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Leptonica Leptonica	Up to 1.75.3

Related CWEs

Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

The product contains a code sequence that can run concurrently with other code, and the code sequence requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence that is operating concurrently.

References (4)

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/2018/02/msg00054.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

Mailing ListThird Party Advisory

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202312-01

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/2018/02/msg00054.html

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

Mailing ListThird Party Advisory

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202312-01

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

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