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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201811-08">
<title>Okular: Directory traversal</title>
<synopsis>Okular is vulnerable to a directory traversal attack.</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">Okular</product>
<announced>2018-11-10</announced>
<revised count="1">2018-11-10</revised>
<bug>665662</bug>
<access>remote</access>
<affected>
<package name="kde-apps/okular" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">18.04.3-r1</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">18.04.3-r1</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>Okular is a universal document viewer based on KPDF for KDE 4.</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>It was discovered that Okular contains a Directory Traversal
vulnerability in function unpackDocumentArchive() in core/document.cpp.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted Okular
archive, possibly allowing the writing of arbitrary files with the
privileges of the process.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>All Okular users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=kde-apps/okular-18.04.3-r1"
</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000801">
CVE-2018-1000801
</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2018-10-09T10:06:04Z">Zlogene</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2018-11-10T00:11:36Z">whissi</metadata>
</glsa>