| 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, ELA-764-1, ELA-765-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 889759 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| leptonlib (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 1.71-2.1+deb8u2 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 1.74.1-1+deb9u1 | vulnerable | |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 1.74.1-1+deb9u2 | fixed | |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 1.76.0-1+deb10u2 | fixed | |
| bullseye | 1.79.0-1.1+deb11u1 | fixed | |
| bookworm | 1.82.0-3 | fixed | |
| sid, trixie | 1.84.1-4 | 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 | jessie | 1.71-2.1+deb8u2 | ELA-765-1 | ||
| leptonlib | source | stretch | 1.74.1-1+deb9u2 | ELA-764-1 | ||
| leptonlib | source | (unstable) | 1.75.3-1 | 889759 |
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.