Out-of-Bounds Affecting leptonica package, versions [,1.75.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.47% (85th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LEPTONICA-2370261
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed19 Feb 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 19 Feb 2018

CVE-2018-7247  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade leptonica to version 1.75.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. An issue was discovered in pixHtmlViewer in prog/htmlviewer.c in Leptonica before 1.75.3. Unsanitized input (rootname) can overflow a buffer, leading potentially to arbitrary code execution or possibly unspecified other impact.

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