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openSUSE: 2018:2733-2 Moderate: Okular Directory Traversal Threat

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Calendar Grey September 22, 2018
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Resolves path traversal vulnerability in Okular with a moderate impact level for the openSUSE Backports.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update for okular fixes the following security issue:

- CVE-2018-1000801: Prevent directory traversal vulnerability in function

unpackDocumentArchive could have resulted in arbitrary file creation via

a specially crafted Okular archive (bsc#1107591).

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-1006=1

Package List

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64):

okular-17.12.3-bp150.3.3.1

okular-debuginfo-17.12.3-bp150.3.3.1

okular-debugsource-17.12.3-bp150.3.3.1

okular-devel-17.12.3-bp150.3.3.1

- openSUSE Backports SLE-15 (noarch):

okular-lang-17.12.3-bp150.3.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1000801.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1107591

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:2733-2
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Backports SLE-15

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