Moderate: okular security update

Synopsis

Moderate: okular security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update for okular is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Okular is a universal document viewer developed by KDE supporting different kinds of documents, like PDF, Postscript, DjVu, CHM, XPS, ePub and others.

Security Fix(es):

• okular: Directory traversal in function unpackDocumentArchive() in core/document.cpp (CVE-2018-1000801)
  

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.8 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1626265 - CVE-2018-1000801 okular: Directory traversal in function unpackDocumentArchive() in core/document.cpp

CVEs

• CVE-2018-1000801

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.8_release_notes/index