Candidate: CVE-2018-7441
PublicDate: 2018-02-23 21:29:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-7441
 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/2018/02/msg00054.html
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.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
 ebarretto> Neutralised by kernel hardening
 ebarretto> https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/2018/02/msg00054.html
Bugs:
Priority: low
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to:
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H [7.0 HIGH]


Patches_leptonlib:
upstream_leptonlib: needs-triage
precise/esm_leptonlib: DNE
trusty_leptonlib: ignored (out of standard support)
trusty/esm_leptonlib: needed
xenial_leptonlib: ignored (end of standard support, was needed)
artful_leptonlib: ignored (reached end-of-life)
bionic_leptonlib: needed
cosmic_leptonlib: released (1.76.0-1)
disco_leptonlib: released (1.76.0-1)
eoan_leptonlib: released (1.76.0-1)
focal_leptonlib: released (1.76.0-1)
groovy_leptonlib: released (1.76.0-1)
hirsute_leptonlib: released (1.76.0-1)
impish_leptonlib: released (1.76.0-1)
jammy_leptonlib: released (1.76.0-1)
devel_leptonlib: released (1.76.0-1)