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2018-09-06
okular version 18.08 and earlier contains a Directory Traversal vulnerability in function "unpackDocumentArchive(...)" in "core/document.cpp" that can result in Arbitrary file creation on the user workstation. This attack appear to be exploitable via he victim must open a specially crafted Okular archive. This issue appears to have been corrected in version 18.08.1
| Products | Debian_linux, Okular |
| Type | Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') (CWE-22) |
| First patch | - None (likely due to unavailable code) |
| Links |
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-08
• https://cgit.kde.org/okular.git/commit/?id=8ff7abc14d41906ad978b6bc67e69693863b9d47 • https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=398096 • https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4303 • https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00027.html |