CVE-2018-3836

An exploitable command injection vulnerability exists in the gplotMakeOutput function of Leptonica 1.74.4. A specially crafted gplot rootname argument can cause a command injection resulting in arbitrary code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious path as input to an application that passes attacker data to this function to trigger this vulnerability.

• CWE-78

• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/02/msg00019.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0516Exploit, Third Party Advisory
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/02/msg00019.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0516Exploit, Third Party Advisory

Published

Apr 24, 2018

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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