Deserialization of Untrusted Data Affecting calibre package, versions <3.19.0+dfsg-1
Threat Intelligence
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- published8 Mar 2018
- disclosed8 Mar 2018
Introduced: 8 Mar 2018
CVE-2018-7889 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Debian:unstable calibre to version 3.19.0+dfsg-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream calibre package and not the calibre package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.
gui2/viewer/bookmarkmanager.py in Calibre 3.18 calls cPickle.load on imported bookmark data, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted .pickle file, as demonstrated by Python code that contains an os.system call.