High severity7.0NVD Advisory· Published Feb 23, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2018-7441
CVE-2018-7441
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.
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References
2- lists.debian.org/debian-lts/2018/02/msg00054.htmlnvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/202312-01nvd
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