UBUNTU-CVE-2018-3836

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2018-3836

    Published: 24 Apr 2018Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-3836
    Aliases:
    USN-4819-1

    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://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-3836, https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0516, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-3836, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4819-1

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: leptonlib

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]~esm1?arch=source&distro=trusty/esm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.70.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

    Affected versions

    1.69-4ubuntu1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High