Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:20187186000
Revision Date:2018-02-16Version:1
Title:CVE-2018-7186 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - medium.
Description:Leptonica before 1.75.3 does not limit the number of characters in a %s format argument to fscanf or sscanf, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long string, as demonstrated by the gplotRead and ptaReadStream functions.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2018-7186
Platform(s):Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
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Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) is installed.
  • AND The 'leptonlib' package in xenial is affected and needs fixing.
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