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Leptonica through 1.75.3 uses hardcoded /tmp pathnames, which might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files or have unspecified other impact by creating files in advance or winning a race condition, as demonstrated by /tmp/junk_split_image.ps in prog/splitimage2pdf.c

Published Feb 23, 2018

Description

Leptonica through 1.75.3 uses hardcoded /tmp pathnames, which might allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files or have unspecified other impact by creating files in advance or winning a race condition, as demonstrated by /tmp/junk_split_image.ps in prog/splitimage2pdf.c.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-362

Race Condition

References (2)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Feb 23, 2018
Updated Aug 5, 2024
Reserved Feb 23, 2018
Link CVE-2018-7441
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Link CVE-2018-7441
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
Links CVE-2018-7441