It was discovered that Okular mishandled certain crafted archives during extraction. An attacker could use this vulnerability to write arbitrary files to the filesystem.
{
"availability": "Available with Ubuntu Pro: https://ubuntu.com/pro",
"binaries": [
{
"binary_version": "4:17.12.3-0ubuntu1+esm1",
"binary_name": "libokular5core8"
},
{
"binary_version": "4:17.12.3-0ubuntu1+esm1",
"binary_name": "okular"
},
{
"binary_version": "4:17.12.3-0ubuntu1+esm1",
"binary_name": "okular-dev"
},
{
"binary_version": "4:17.12.3-0ubuntu1+esm1",
"binary_name": "okular-extra-backends"
},
{
"binary_version": "4:17.12.3-0ubuntu1+esm1",
"binary_name": "okular-mobile"
},
{
"binary_version": "4:17.12.3-0ubuntu1+esm1",
"binary_name": "qml-module-org-kde-okular"
}
]
}
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-4830-1.json"
{
"ecosystem": "Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS",
"cves": [
{
"id": "CVE-2018-1000801",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
},
{
"score": "low",
"type": "Ubuntu"
}
]
}
]
}