VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2018-7247
Unsanitized input (rootname) can overflow a buffer, leading potentially to arbitrary code execution or possibly unspecified other impact.
CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 2.44%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.44%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
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 3.0
- 9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 2.44% probability · 83th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-119
- Affected
- leptonica/leptonica
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- https://github.com/DanBloomberg/leptonica/commit/c1079bb8e77cdd426759e466729917ca37a3ed9fThird Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202312-01
- https://github.com/DanBloomberg/leptonica/commit/c1079bb8e77cdd426759e466729917ca37a3ed9fThird Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202312-01
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.