CVE-2018-3836

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    CVE-2018-3836

    Published: 24 Apr 2018Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: An exploitable command injection vulnerability exists in the gplotMakeOutput function of Leptonica 1.74.4. A specially crafted gplot rootname argument can cause a command injection resulting in arbitrary code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious path as input to an application that passes attacker data to this function to trigger this vulnerability.

    References: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/02/msg00019.html, https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0516

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- f3d7ee868b4864cdca7ea57349d49f3d2b4a63ec
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1.74.4

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
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    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
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    Scope
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    Confidentiality
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    Integrity
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    Availability
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