CVE-2018-7441: Race Condition

First published: Fri Feb 23 2018(Updated: )

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.

Credit: cve@mitre.org cve@mitre.org

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