4.4
CVSSv2

CVE-2018-7441

Published: 23/02/2018 Updated: 18/12/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.4 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 3.4
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 1
VMScore: 392
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

Leptonica up to and including 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.

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Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #898439 leptonlib: CVE-2018-7442 Package: src:leptonlib; Maintainer for src:leptonlib is Jeff Breidenbach <jab@debianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Fri, 11 May 2018 17:21:01 UTC Severity: important Tags: security, upstream Found in version leptonlib/1753 ...