Candidate: CVE-2018-7889
PublicDate: 2018-03-08 21:29:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-7889
 https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/1753870
 https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/commit/aeb5b036a0bf657951756688b3c72bd68b6e4a7d
Description:
 gui2/viewer/bookmarkmanager.py in Calibre 3.18 calls cPickle.load on
 imported bookmark data, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary
 code via a crafted .pickle file, as demonstrated by Python code that
 contains an os.system call.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
Bugs:
 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=892242
Priority: medium
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to:
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H [7.8 HIGH]


Patches_calibre:
upstream_calibre: released (3.19.0+dfsg-1)
precise/esm_calibre: DNE
trusty_calibre: ignored (reached end-of-life)
trusty/esm_calibre: DNE (trusty was needs-triage)
xenial_calibre: ignored (end of standard support, was needs-triage)
artful_calibre: ignored (reached end-of-life)
bionic_calibre: not-affected (3.19.0+dfsg-1)
cosmic_calibre: not-affected (3.19.0+dfsg-1)
disco_calibre: not-affected (3.19.0+dfsg-1)
eoan_calibre: not-affected (3.19.0+dfsg-1)
focal_calibre: not-affected (3.19.0+dfsg-1)
groovy_calibre: not-affected (3.19.0+dfsg-1)
hirsute_calibre: not-affected (3.19.0+dfsg-1)
impish_calibre: not-affected (3.19.0+dfsg-1)
jammy_calibre: not-affected (3.19.0+dfsg-1)
devel_calibre: not-affected (3.19.0+dfsg-1)