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CVE-2018-7441

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.0 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-02-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-362

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.

Affected products

• Leptonica: through 1.75.3

References

• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/2018/02/msg00054.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202312-01
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/2018/02/msg00054.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202312-01

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