Ubuntu Security Notices
USN-5143-1

USN-5143-1: Leptonica vulnerability

Publication date

8 February 2022

Overview

Leptonica could be made to run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

Releases

18.04 LTS

Packages

leptonlib - Leptonica image processing library

Details

It was discovered that Leptonica incorrectly handled certain image files. An
attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code or other
unspecified impact.

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release	Package Version
18.04 bionic	leptonica-progs – 1.75.3-3ubuntu0.1~esm1
18.04 bionic	liblept5 – 1.75.3-3ubuntu0.1~esm1

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References

CVE-2018-7247

CVE-2018-7247