Source: leptonlib
Version: 1.75.3-2
Severity: grave
Tags: security patch

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for leptonlib.

CVE-2018-7440[0]:
| An issue was discovered in Leptonica through 1.75.3. The
| gplotMakeOutput function allows command injection via a $(command)
| approach in the gplot rootname argument. This issue exists because of
| an incomplete fix for CVE-2018-3836.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-7440
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-7440

An upstream patch is available at:

    
https://github.com/DanBloomberg/leptonica/pull/313/commits/49ecb6c2dfd6ed5078c62f4a8eeff03e3beced3b

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

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