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
References
Link | Resource |
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https://cgit.kde.org/okular.git/commit/?id=8ff7abc14d41906ad978b6bc67e69693863b9d47 | Patch Third Party Advisory |
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=398096 | Exploit Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory |
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4303 | Third Party Advisory |
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00027.html | Mailing List Third Party Advisory |
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-08 | Third Party Advisory |
Information
Published : 2018-09-06 11:29
Updated : 2019-03-20 12:55
NVD link : CVE-2018-1000801
Mitre link : CVE-2018-1000801
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CWE
CWE-22
Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Products Affected
kde
- okular
debian
- debian_linux