Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:201810008010000000
Revision Date:2018-09-06Version:1
Title:CVE-2018-1000801 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - low.
Description:okular version 18.08 and earlier contains a Directory Traversal vulnerability in function "unpackDocumentArchive(...)" in "core/document.cpp" that can result in Arbitrary file creation on the user workstation. This attack appear to be exploitable via he victim must open a specially crafted Okular archive. This issue appears to have been corrected in version 18.08.1 It was discovered that Okular mishandled certain crafted archives during extraction. An attacker could use this vulnerability to write arbitrary files to the filesystem.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2018-1000801
Platform(s):Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
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Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) is installed.
  • AND okular package in xenial is affected and may need fixing.
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