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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 |