Deserialization of Untrusted Data The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package calibre  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1904-CALIBRE-645518
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed8 Mar 2018

Introduced: 8 Mar 2018

CVE-2018-7889  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-502  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:19.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream calibre package and not the calibre package as distributed by Ubuntu.

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.