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Debian: CVE-2011-1136: tesseract -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2011-1136: tesseract -- security update

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C)
Published
11/14/2019
Created
07/31/2024
Added
07/30/2024
Modified
07/30/2024

Description

In tesseract 2.03 and 2.04, an attacker can rewrite an arbitrary user file by guessing the PID and creating a link to the user's file.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-tesseract

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