Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title Okular: Directory traversal
Informations
Name GLSA-201811-08 First vendor Publication 2018-11-10
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2018-11-10
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 4.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

Okular is vulnerable to a directory traversal attack.

Background

Okular is a universal document viewer based on KPDF for KDE 4.

Description

It was discovered that Okular contains a Directory Traversal vulnerability in function unpackDocumentArchive() in core/document.cpp.

Impact

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.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Okular users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=kde-apps/okular-18.04.3-r1"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2018-1000801 : https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000801

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-08

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201811-08.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1
Os 2

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2019-01-03 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-c504c3072c.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2019-01-03 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-de7ad09860.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-09-25 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-4303.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-09-24 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1516.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-09-18 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2018-dbeb27d783.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2018-11-10 05:17:15
  • First insertion