gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201811-08.xml

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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>