| 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, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, 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) | buster | 1.76.0-1+deb10u1 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 1.76.0-1+deb10u2 | fixed |
| bullseye | 1.79.0-1.1+deb11u1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie, bookworm | 1.82.0-3 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
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.