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Ubuntu: USN-4830-1 (CVE-2018-1000801): Okular vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-4830-1 (CVE-2018-1000801): Okular vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
09/06/2018
Created
03/29/2023
Added
03/22/2023
Modified
11/15/2024

Description

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

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libokular5core8
  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-okular
  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-qml-module-org-kde-okular

References

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