MGASA-2018-0279

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    MGASA-2018-0279

    Published: 14 Jun 2018Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary: Updated leptonica packages fix security vulnerabilities

    Details: This update fixes a security issue (potential injection attack using gplot rootdir) originally reported in CVE-2018-3836. This fix was incomplete and again reported in CVE-2018-7440 and CVE-2018-7442. The improved fix is included in leptonica-1.76.0.

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0279.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23130, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22591, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1549735, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1549729

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: leptonica

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/leptonica?arch=source&distro=mageia-6

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.76.0-1.mga6

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    User Interaction
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    Integrity
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    Availability
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