PT-2018-17973 · Dan Bloomberg+2 · Leptonica+2

Published 2018-02-19 · Updated 2024-12-19 · CVE-2018-7247

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

9.8

Critical

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Leptonica versions prior to 1.75.3

Description An issue was discovered in pixHtmlViewer in prog/htmlviewer.c, where unsanitized input, specifically the rootname, can overflow a buffer. This could potentially lead to arbitrary code execution or other unspecified impacts.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.75.3, update to version 1.75.3 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2021-3559

ALT-PU-2022-1147

ALT-PU-2024-16902

CVE-2018-7247

MGASA-2018-0175

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10914-1

USN-5143-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Leptonica

Ubuntu

References · 22

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-7247 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2018-0175 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5143-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-7247 · Security Note
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0175.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-7247 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-7247 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-5143-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10914-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-7247 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-7247 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-7247 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202312-01 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/DanBloomberg/leptonica/commit/c1079bb8e77cdd426759e466729917ca37a3ed9f · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-7440 · Note