An issue was discovered in pixHtmlViewer in prog/htmlviewer.c in Leptonica before 1.75.3. Unsanitized input (rootname) can overflow a buffer, leading potentially to arbitrary code execution or possibly unspecified other impact.
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202312-01
https://github.com/DanBloomberg/leptonica/commit/c1079bb8e77cdd426759e466729917ca37a3ed9f
Source: Mitre, NVD
Published: 2018-02-19
Updated: 2024-11-21
Base Score: 7.5
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Severity: High
Base Score: 9.8
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity: Critical
EPSS: 0.00294