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Gentoo: GLSA-201811-08 Normal Severity: Okular Directory Traversal Issue

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Calendar Grey November 10, 2018
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
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Okular is vulnerable to a directory traversal attack.

Summary

It was discovered that Okular contains a Directory Traversal vulnerability in function unpackDocumentArchive() in core/document.cpp.

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Topics Covered

security advisory gentoo directory traversal normal severity okular

Resolution

All Okular users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=kde-apps/okular-18.04.3-r1"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2018-1000801 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000801

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-08
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: Normal
Title: Okular: Directory traversal
Date: November 10, 2018
Bugs: #665662
ID: 201811-08

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Topics Covered

security advisory gentoo directory traversal normal severity okular

Synopsis

Okular is vulnerable to a directory traversal attack.

Background

Okular is a universal document viewer based on KPDF for KDE 4.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 kde-apps/okular < 18.04.3-r1 >= 18.04.3-r1

Impact

===== A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted Okular archive, possibly allowing the writing of arbitrary files with the privileges of the process.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.