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Posted on 23 September 2018
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-4303-1 security@debian.org
https://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff
September 23, 2018 https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : okular
CVE ID : CVE-2018-1000801
Joran Herve discovered that the Okular document viewer was susceptible
to directory traversal via malformed .okular files (annotated document
archives), which could result in the creation of arbitrary files.
For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in
version 4:16.08.2-1+deb9u1.
We recommend that you upgrade your okular packages.
For the detailed security status of okular please refer to
its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/okular
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
