Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201803-8
========================================
Severity: High
Date    : 2018-03-11
CVE-ID  : CVE-2018-7889
Package : calibre
Type    : arbitrary command execution
Remote  : Yes
Link    : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-650

Summary
======
The package calibre before version 3.19.0-1 is vulnerable to arbitrary
command execution.

Resolution
=========
Upgrade to 3.19.0-1.

# pacman -Syu "calibre>=3.19.0-1"

The problem has been fixed upstream in version 3.19.0.

Workaround
=========
None.

Description
==========
gui2/viewer/bookmarkmanager.py in Calibre 3.18 calls cPickle.load on
imported bookmark data, which allows remote attackers to execute
arbitrary code via a crafted .pickle file, as demonstrated by Python
code that contains an os.system call.

Impact
=====
A remote attacker is able to execute arbitrary commands by tricking the
user into importing a specially crafted bookmark.

References
=========
https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/1753870
https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/commit/aeb5b036a0bf657951756688b3c72bd68b6e4a7d
https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2018-7889

ArchLinux: 201803-8: calibre: arbitrary command execution

March 13, 2018

Summary

gui2/viewer/bookmarkmanager.py in Calibre 3.18 calls cPickle.load on imported bookmark data, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted .pickle file, as demonstrated by Python code that contains an os.system call.

Resolution

Upgrade to 3.19.0-1. # pacman -Syu "calibre>=3.19.0-1"
The problem has been fixed upstream in version 3.19.0.

References

https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/1753870 https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/commit/aeb5b036a0bf657951756688b3c72bd68b6e4a7d https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2018-7889

Severity
Package : calibre
Type : arbitrary command execution
Remote : Yes
Link : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-650

Workaround

None.

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