Mageia 6: MGASA-2018-0389 Moderate: Okular Directory Traversal Threat
mageia
September 21, 2018
okular version 18.08 and earlier contains a Directory Traversal vulnerability in function "unpackDocumentArchive(...)" in "core/document.cpp" that can result in Arbitrary file crea...
Summary
okular version 18.08 and earlier contains a Directory Traversal
vulnerability in function "unpackDocumentArchive(...)" in
"core/document.cpp" that can result in Arbitrary file creation on the user
workstation. This attack appear to be exploitable via he victim must open
a specially crafted Okular archive (CVE-2018-1000801).
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23562
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/YYAUHZUZOJFM57K33S2TT4PJT33WY7W3/
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-1000801
Resolution
SRPMS
- 6/core/okular-17.12.2-1.1.mga6
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Publication date: 21 Sep 2018
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0389.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2018-1000801
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