Directory Traversal The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package leptonica-devel  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-LEPTONICADEVEL-1329549
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed23 Feb 2018

Introduced: 23 Feb 2018

CVE-2018-7442  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream leptonica-devel package and not the leptonica-devel package as distributed by RHEL.

An issue was discovered in Leptonica through 1.75.3. The gplotMakeOutput function does not block '/' characters in the gplot rootname argument, potentially leading to path traversal and arbitrary file overwrite.