PT-2017-7793 · Kovid Goyal+2 · Calibre+1

Jędrzej + 1 · Published 2017-02-08 · Updated 2017-03-20 · CVE-2016-10187

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions calibre versions prior to 2.75 ALT Linux (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a crafted epub file with JavaScript. There is also a mention of a vulnerability in the ALT Linux package, but details are not provided.

Recommendations For calibre versions prior to 2.75, update to version 2.75 or later to resolve the issue. For ALT Linux, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-1142

CVE-2016-10187

DLA-859-1

MGASA-2017-0047

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Calibre

References · 18

• 🔥 https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/1651728 · Exploit
• https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/commit/3a89718664cb8c · Patch
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/31/9 · Patch
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/29/8 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10187 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-10187 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-10187 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-10187 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10187 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2017-0047 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0047.html · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-10187 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-10187 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-10187 · Vendor Advisory
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2017-1142 · Vendor Advisory