CVE-2018-7441 (NVD)

2018-02-23

Leptonica through 1.75.3 uses hardcoded /tmp pathnames, which might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files or have unspecified other impact by creating files in advance or winning a race condition, as demonstrated by /tmp/junk_split_image.ps in prog/splitimage2pdf.c.

Products Leptonica
Type Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition') (CWE-362)
First patch - None (likely due to unavailable code)
Links https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/2018/02/msg00054.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202312-01