Link Following Affecting tesseract package, versions <2.04-2.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (23rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-TESSERACT-265987
  • published27 Jun 2018
  • disclosed14 Nov 2019

Introduced: 27 Jun 2018

CVE-2011-1136  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-59  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 tesseract to version 2.04-2.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tesseract package and not the tesseract package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

In tesseract 2.03 and 2.04, an attacker can rewrite an arbitrary user file by guessing the PID and creating a link to the user's file.

CVSS Scores

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