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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7: RHSA-2020:1173-01 Moderate: Okular Security Fix

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Calendar Grey March 31, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat Security Advisory has issued a significant patch for Okular on RHEL 7, targeting vulnerabilities in the document viewer that could compromise system integrity.
An update for okular is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

Okular is a universal document viewer developed by KDE supporting different kinds of documents, like PDF, Postscript, DjVu, CHM, XPS, ePub and others.
Security Fix(es):
* okular: Directory traversal in function unpackDocumentArchive() in core/document.cpp (CVE-2018-1000801)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.8 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update directory traversal red hat enterprise linux document viewer okular

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1000801 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.8_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: okular-4.10.5-8.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: okular-4.10.5-8.el7.x86_64.rpm okular-debuginfo-4.10.5-8.el7.i686.rpm okular-debuginfo-4.10.5-8.el7.x86_64.rpm okular-libs-4.10.5-8.el7.i686.rpm okular-libs-4.10.5-8.el7.x86_64.rpm okular-part-4.10.5-8.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7):
x86_64: okular-debuginfo-4.10.5-8.el7.i686.rpm okular-debuginfo-4.10.5-8.el7.x86_64.rpm okular-devel-4.10.5-8.el7.i686.rpm okular-devel-4.10.5-8.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: okular-4.10.5-8.el7.src.rpm
ppc64le: okular-4.10.5-8.el7.ppc64le.rpm okular-debuginfo-4.10.5-8.el7.ppc64le.rpm okular-devel-4.10.5-8.el7.ppc64le.rpm okular-libs-4.10.5-8.el7.ppc64le.rpm okular-part-4.10.5-8.el7.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64: okular-4.10.5-8.el7.x86_64.rpm okular-debuginfo-4.10.5-8.el7.i686.rpm okular-debuginfo-4.10.5-8.el7.x86_64.rpm okular-devel-4.10.5-8.el7.i686.rpm okular-devel-4.10.5-8.el7.x86_64.rpm okular-libs-4.10.5-8.el7.i686.rpm okular-libs-4.10.5-8.el7.x86_64.rpm okular-part-4.10.5-8.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7):
Source: okular-4.10.5-8.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: okular-4.10.5-8.el7.x86_64.rpm okular-debuginfo-4.10.5-8.el7.i686.rpm okular-debuginfo-4.10.5-8.el7.x86_64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:1173-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1173
Issue date: 2020-03-31

Topic

An update for okular is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update directory traversal red hat enterprise linux document viewer okular

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - ppc64le, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1626265 - CVE-2018-1000801 okular: Directory traversal in function unpackDocumentArchive() in core/document.cpp

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