Directory Traversal Affecting okular-libs package, versions <0:4.10.5-8.el7


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.83% (78th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE7-OKULARLIBS-2552239
  • published10 Apr 2022
  • disclosed6 Sept 2018

Introduced: 6 Sep 2018

CVE-2018-1000801  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:7 okular-libs to version 0:4.10.5-8.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2020-1173.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream okular-libs package and not the okular-libs package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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