An exploitable command injection vulnerability exists in the gplotMakeOutput function of Leptonica 1.74.4. A specially crafted gplot rootname argument can cause a command injection resulting in arbitrary code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious path as input to an application that passes attacker data to this function to trigger this vulnerability.

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Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1284-1 leptonlib security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1302-1 leptonlib security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2018-15622 An exploitable command injection vulnerability exists in the gplotMakeOutput function of Leptonica 1.74.4. A specially crafted gplot rootname argument can cause a command injection resulting in arbitrary code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious path as input to an application that passes attacker data to this function to trigger this vulnerability.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: talos

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Updated: 2024-09-16T16:22:40.419Z

Reserved: 2018-01-02T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2018-3836

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Status : Modified

Published: 2018-04-24T19:29:03.970

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:06:08.340

Link: CVE-2018-3836

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