CVE-2018-3836

Name	CVE-2018-3836
Description	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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DLA-1284-1
Debian Bugs	889759

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
leptonlib (PTS)	bullseye	1.79.0-1.1+deb11u1	fixed
	bookworm	1.82.0-3	fixed
	trixie	1.84.1-4	fixed
	forky, sid	1.86.0-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
leptonlib	source	wheezy	1.69-3.1+deb7u1		DLA-1284-1
leptonlib	source	(unstable)	1.75.3-1			889759

Notes

https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0516
https://github.com/DanBloomberg/leptonica/issues/303
When fixing this issue make sure the fix is complete and includes as well
https://github.com/DanBloomberg/leptonica/pull/313/commits/49ecb6c2dfd6ed5078c62f4a8eeff03e3beced3b
to not open CVE-2018-7440.