CVE-2018-7247 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Leptonica

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer9 documents6 sources
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
EPSS
0.4%
top 39.65%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
LeptonicaDebian Leptonlib
Timeline
PublishedFeb 19
Latest updateMay 14

Description

An issue was discovered in pixHtmlViewer in prog/htmlviewer.c in Leptonica before 1.75.3. Unsanitized input (rootname) can overflow a buffer, leading potentially to arbitrary code execution or possibly unspecified other impact.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages2 packages

▶NVDleptonica/leptonica< 1.75.3
▶debiandebian/leptonlib< leptonlib 1.76.0-1 (bookworm)

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-29q2-994c-m8hr: An issue was discovered in pixHtmlViewer in prog/htmlviewer↗2022-05-14
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OSV
CVE-2018-7247: An issue was discovered in pixHtmlViewer in prog/htmlviewer↗2018-02-19
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Ubuntu
Leptonica vulnerability↗2022-02-08
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Debian
CVE-2018-7247: leptonlib - An issue was discovered in pixHtmlViewer in prog/htmlviewer.c in Leptonica befor...↗2018
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💬Community

4
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-7247 mingw-leptonica: leptonica: Unsanitized input in pixHtmlViewer in prog/htmlviewer.c [fedora-all]↗2018-02-20
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-7247 leptonica: Unsanitized input in pixHtmlViewer in prog/htmlviewer.c↗2018-02-20
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-7247 leptonica: Unsanitized input in pixHtmlViewer in prog/htmlviewer.c [epel-all]↗2018-02-20
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-7247 leptonica: Unsanitized input in pixHtmlViewer in prog/htmlviewer.c [fedora-all]↗2018-02-20
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